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Raisin Filled Cookies




Source of Recipe


Helen Blose


Recipe Introduction


Mom says it is the lemon extract that makes these so good and different from the average filled cookie


List of Ingredients




see below

Recipe



Cream 2 cups sugar with 1 cup and 2 T. Crisco. Add 2 eggs.

Mix together 6 cups flour, 4 tsp. cream of tartar, 2 tsp. soda and 1 tsp. salt.

Add alternatively with 1 cup milk that has a teaspoon of lemon extract stirred into it. Begin and end with the flour mixture.

Chill dough.

Filling:
3 cups raisins, coarsely chopped
2 T. flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
Boil all filling ingredients until it thickens; stirring constantly for a couple of minutes. Chill filling.

Roll out and cut round cookies. Half of them will either need to have a little hole cut in the center (maybe use a thimble) or make a cross on the dough. Add 1 heaping teaspoon per cookie, cover and seal top.

Bake on ungreased cookie sheets either at 400 for 8-10 minutes or 350 for 10-12 minutes until golden.

Makes a lot