Back 3/4 Cup Vegetable Shortening
1 Cup Sugar
1 Egg
1/2 Cup Milk
1 teas. Watkins Vanilla
3 1/2 Cups Flour
1/2 teas. Salt
4 teas. Watkins Baking Powder
Cream shortening, sugar and beat egg. Sift dry ingredients. Add alternately with milk and vanilla. Roll fairly thin; cut in 2 inch circles; put a heaping teas. of filling on bottom circle and top with circle, pinching edge with fingers or use tines of fork to seal. Bake about 15 to 20 minutes in moderate oven. Prick each cookie 2 or 3 times before baking.
Filling for Raisin
Cookies:
2 Cups Raisins
1 Cup Water
1 Tbsp. Lemon Juice
2 Tbsp. Flour
1/2 Cup Sugar
Watkins Cinnamon, if desired.
Bring raisins and water to boil with juice. Add a little water to sugar and flour to make paste. Then add to raisins and stir until thick and clear. Cool before putting on cookies.
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