Best My Mothers Date Pocket Cookies Recipes

DATE-FILLED COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and 1 cup sugar; add eggs and beat well.
• Add milk.
• Sift together baking powder, 2 cups flour, and salt; add flour mixture to creamed mixture.
• Refrigerate.
• While dough is chilling, make filling by cooking dates, water, 3 tsp flour, and 1/2 cup sugar until thick; add chopped nuts.
• Roll out dough; cut in rounds.
• Mound filling in center, place another round on top and seal edges.
• Bake at 375°F on greased cookie sheets until lightly browned.

DATE FILLED SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°
• Cream shortening and white and brown sugar. until fluffy. Add egg, milk, and vanilla, beating well. Sift dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture. Mix well. Chill dough at least an hour.
• Meanwhile, make date filling by combining chopped dates, sugar and water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer about five minutes, stirring occasionally. Add lemon juice and salt. Cool.
• On floured surface (or pastry cloth), roll half of the dough at a time to a little less than 1/8 inch. Cut with 2 1/2 inch round cookie cutter. (Recipe recommends cutting a small hole in the center of half the cookies for the top with a thimble. My mom has always skipped this step.) Place 1 tablespoon of prepared date filling in the center of each plain cookie bottom. Top with another round cookie (with small hole if you are following original recipe). Press the edges of each filled cookie together with the tip of a fork to seal. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 375° for about 10 to 12 minutes.

MY AUNT JANE'S DATE COOKIES

Steps:

• Filling:.
• Break up dates, cover with water, add 2 tespoons of lemon juice. Boil for 2 minutes. Add dates to cookie, fold cookie in half. Press edge with fork.
• Cream butter and sugar together well.
• Slowly mix in milk.
• Use a wooden spoon Mix all Dry ingredients together.
• Now slowly add to wet batter.
• Mix well.
• Roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thick.
• Cut into 3 inch diameter round, the top of the large mayonnaise jar works well.
• Put on each round circle 1 tablespoon of dates, or how much you like.
• Bake on ungreased bake sheet.
• Bake at 350 for 8 - 10 minutes.

GRANDMA'S DATE FILLED COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix in a sauce pan the dates, sugar and TBSP of flour, water, and lemon juice. Cook this for about 5 minutes on a medium heat, until all are blended well.
• Mix together the shortening, sugar, and eggs.
• Stir in the 2 Tbsps. thick cream and l teaspoons vanilla.
• Sift together the 2 1/2 cups of flour, baking soda and salt. Add to shortening mix to form dough.
• Chill dough for at least 1 to 2 hours.
• Roll out dough in thin layers in small batches and cut with round cookie cutter.
• Put mixture (about a tbsp.) in the center between 2 thin cookies pressed together.
• Bake at 350 degrees on lightly greased sheet pan for 8-10 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned.

DATE NUT PINWHEEL COOKIES

Steps:

• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and spices. Set aside.
• Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla, and blend thoroughly.
• Add flour mixture, blending to make a soft dough. Refrigerate dough about 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, make filling. In a small saucepan, add dates, sugar, and water. Cook until mixture thickens, about 5 minutes. Mix in peel and nuts. Cool.
• Divide cookie dough in half. Roll 1/2 into 8x10 rectangle. Spread 1/2 of filling over rolled dough. Beginning at long end, roll dough, jelly roll fashion, and wrap in plastic. Repeat with other half of dough. Refrigerate both rolls several hours or overnight.
• With a thin, sharp knife, slice cookies into 1/4" slices. Place on cookie pan lined with parchment paper. Bake at 375F for 8-10 minutes.
• ORANGE-FIG cookies: Make filling of 1-1/4 C figs, 1/4 C sugar, 3/4 C water. Cook approximately 10 minutes, then add 1 tbsp orange peel and 1/2 C finely chopped walnuts. Proceed as above using orange-fig filling instead of date filling.

DATE COOKIES (GRANDMA COOKIES)

Steps:

• Cream fat and sugar.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and mix.
• Chill for 2 hours or longer.
• Break bits of dough and flatten down with glass, 3 inches apart on greased baking sheet.
• Flatten with knife which has been dipped in cold water.
• Put 1/2 walnut or pecan on top.
• Bake for 10 minutes in moderate oven.

DATE COOKIES LIKE AWREY'S

Steps:

• Mix filling ingredients in saucepan. Cook til smooth. (Raspberry or strawberry jam may also be used as filling.)
• Mix cookie ingredients as if for a pie crust.
• Pat one half of the mixture on a buttered (8x8x2 inch) pan.
• Press down firmly and spread on the filling.
• Cover with the other half of the oatmeal mixture and press down lightly.
• Bake at 350° for 10-15 minutes. Cut into squares.

MY MOTHER'S DATE POCKET COOKIES

Steps:

• Cookie: Combine dry ingredients.Set aside. Cream together oleo,and lard , add 3 whole eggs and 3 extra egg yolks.(reserve the 3 egg whites). Slowly add in flour mixture alternately with the sour cream.. Mix well to combine.Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate up to 3 days. --- Mix together dates. water, lemon juice, butter, sugar and nuts.. Cook slowly until this mixture is thick and bubbly.Save in refrigerator until ready to use. Roll dough as you would for sugar cookies, 1/4-inch thick. Cut in 2-inch squares. Fill each with square with a heaping teaspoon of filling. Put filling in the middle of square and fold 2 opposite corners together, pinching to close. Beat the 3 reserved egg whites and spread on top of each cookie, then sprinkle with sugar. Bake on greased cookie sheet at 375^ for 12 to 15 minutes or until tops are lightly browned.