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Cookies, Candy & Desserts

Delicious Date Cookies - 1996
​​​​​​Recipe courtesy of Ginny Shonk

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 cup  butter or margarine -- softened
  • 2 cups  brown sugar
  • 2 eggs    -- room tempurature
  • ½ cup  buttermilk (or soured milk)
  • 1 teaspoon  baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon  salt
  • 2 cups  dates -- chopped
  • 1 ½ cups  chopped nuts -- (optional)

​PREPARATION
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs.  Mix well. Stir in buttermilk (or soured milk). Sift dry ingredients and add to above ingredients. Stir in dates and nuts.  Mix well. Chill dough 1 hour or overnight. Drop from teaspoon onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 7-8 minutes. Cool.

Top with Delicious Date Cookies Icing, found in this book.  This recipe comes from Joan's Aunt Maureen.  These cookies have been a Shonk holiday tradition for many years.

Note…. Soured milk = 1/2 cup milk with 2 teaspoon vinegar.

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