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List of Ingredients




(Cottage Cheese Cookies)
1 pound margarine (2 cups or 4 sticks)
2 cups cottage cheese (we used large curd cottage cheese, not creamed. We drained the cottage cheese for about 1/2 hour)
4 cups sifted flour


Filling:
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups nuts, ground (walnuts)
2 cups pitted dates, chopped
1 pound powdered sugar (to roll dough before baking and after)


Filling: Mix nuts and dates with sugar. Set aside.

Dough: With electric mixer, mix margarine and cottage cheese until creamy. Add flour a little at a time (we added about 2 cups).

Mix in the remaining flour by hand. Roll dough in balls the size of a walnut -- place on cookie sheet. Refrigerate overnight. Roll balls into a thin circle on a board sprinkled with powdered sugar. Drop a teaspoon of filling in the center of each circle; roll tightly. Place on greased cookie sheet and bake 24 minutes at 375 degrees. While still warm, roll in powdered sugar. Yields about 5 dozen.

Note: We used a food processor to grind the nuts and chop the dates. Instead of rolling the dough with a rolling pin, we found it easier to use the palm of our hand to flatten the dough into a circle about 31/2 inches wide. Watch the cookies carefully. The recipe calls for baking the cookies for 24 minutes, but ours were done in about 15 minutes. The cookies are done when they're golden brown around the edges.



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