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Date Cookie Recipe

Vintage Recipe For Honey Date Cookies

Searching for an old fashioned date cookie recipe? If you love the sweet, exotic taste of dates, you've found one of the best cookie recipes here!

Brown sugar, honey, and dates... everything nice goes into these delicious honey date cookies.

These fancy date cookies are so easy to make, and they're wonderful tasting too. And because they look so attractive on a plate, people will think you spent hours making them. But, don't worry, we won't reveal your secret.

Recipe For Honey Date Cookies

This old-fashioned recipe for date cookies and its illustration was taken from one of Mom's old recipe scrapbooks, circa 1929.

1 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup honey
3 eggs
4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoonful salt

Prepare date filling and set aside to cool.

Cream shortening and brown sugar together until fluffy. Add honey gradually and continue creaming. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well.

Sift dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture.

Divide cookie dough into 2 parts. Chill 1/2 hour in refrigerator. Roll each part into a 12-inch by 10-inch rectangle about 1/2 inch thick on a floured board.

Spread dough gently with cooled filling to within 1 inch of edges. Roll up like a jelly roll. Wrap each roll in waxed paper. Place rolls in coldest part of refrigerator overnight. Slice thin.

Bake cookie slices on ungreased baking sheet, in moderate oven (375°F), about 12 minutes. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.

Cookie Date Filling Recipe
1-1/2 cups pitted dates, cut-up
3/4 cup honey
1/3 cup water
1-1/4 teaspoons lemon juice
1/2 cup finely chopped nuts

Cook dates, honey, and water until dates are soft. Remove from heat. Add lemon juice and nuts. Cool before spreading.

Give this honey date cookie recipe a try. As a youngster, I loved the taste of dates, and I was always thrilled when Mom made these chewy date cookies.

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