Old-Fashioned Raisin Cookies
A delicious holiday treat!
Ingredients
Dough
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup shortening (lard or butter)
- 6 cups flour
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
FILLING
- 2 cups ground raisins
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 1 /2 cups chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Cook filling ingredients in a medium saucepan until it thickens. Add walnuts.
- Roll dough out very thin. Using a 3-inch wide biscuit or doughnut cutter, cut enough to fill a cookie sheet.
- Put a tablespoon full or a nice big blob of filling in the center of each cookie.
- Now, using the same cookie cutter, cut tops of each cookie.
- Using a thimble, cut a hole in the center of each of the “top” cookie on each of the raisin blobs, sealing all around with fingertips.
- Bake at 375 until done, usually not being brown at all.
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