Filled Cookies I

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 cupful sugar
• ½ cupful Crisco
• ½ cupful milk or cream
• 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoonful baking soda
• 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 3½ cupfuls flour
• ½ teaspoonful salt

Filling

• 1 cupful chopped raisins
• 1 tablespoonfuls flour
• ½ cupful sugar
• ½ cupful water
• ½ cupful chopped walnut meats

Directions

1. Cream Crisco and sugar.
2. Add salt, egg, and flour sifted with baking powder and soda.
3. Mix and turn out on floured baking board.
4. Dough should be soft.
5. Roll very thin and cut out with cookie cutter.
6. Spread one-half of cookies with filling, then place remaining cookies on top and press edges together.
7. Place on Criscoed tins and bake in moderately hot oven fifteen minutes.

Filling

1. Mix sugar and flour in saucepan.
2. Add raisins, nuts, and water.
3. Stir and cook until thick.
4. Cool before using.