Cousin Luisas Italian Date Cookies Recipe 395

Steps:

• Cream shortening and sugar; add eggs.
• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together.
• Add milk and vanilla.
• Mix well; roll out dough 1/4 inch thick.
• Cut with a round cutter.
• Place on cookie sheet.
• Brush top of cookie with egg white.
• Top with filling.
• Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes.
• FILLING:.
• Grind raisins, dates and candied cherries in a food processer.
• Cook on top of stove until thick, stirring constantly. This stuff will probably burn like no one's business.

Steps:

• In mixer, combine 5 eggs with sugar. Add baking powder, cocoa and on low speed, add chocolate chips, dates and nuts. Lastly, add flour. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and spread dough evenly wetting the spatula with milk to make the spreading easier. Bake at 350° F until dough springs back, about 15-18 minutes. While warm, cut into biscotti slices and roll in confectioner's sugar.

Steps:

• Melt butter in a heavy skillet, over medium heat. Stir in egg yolks, dates, and sugar to combine. Cook for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly, until mixture is thick and dates are mostly soft and incorporated. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla, pecans and rice krispies. When mixture is cool enough to handle, roll into walnut size balls and roll in coconut. Keep in an air-tight container.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. In a mixing bowl, beat 1 cup sugar with eggs until fluffy. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Blend dry ingredients into the sugar mixture. Fold in dates and pecans. Spoon batter into a greased 8-inch square pan; bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and stir immediately with a wooden spoon. Let cool completely, then roll mixture into 1-inch balls and toss in 1/4 cup sugar.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Make some tea out of the cinnamon sticks, anise, and water in a pan and boil. Boil till there is only about 1 cup left. Strain the spices out, so it is a clear liquid. You will only use 1/2 a cup, put that a side. Make the dough, cream the shortening and lard till it is light and creamy looking. Then add the tea and sugar and cream again. Start adding the flour a little at a time. Start with 2 cups. then add the powder cinnamon till the dough has a medium brown color. Now finish adding the rest of the flour. This is a sticky dough, so keep adding flour just until it is not sticky anymore and is workable. Flour the surface, your hands and the rolling pin. and then pull out a workable amount of dough. Roll the dough out till it is a little less the 1/4-inch thick. Cut with round cookie cutter. Bake for 15 minutes. Pull out of the oven to cool on the cooling racks. As soon as touchable, coat them in the sugar/cinnamon bath. The cookies must be warm, so the sugar will melt on them. Put them back on the cooling racks to finish cooling down. Repeat till all dough used and baked.