Raisin Filled Cookies

Raisin Filled Cookies

Cookie Dough
1 cup sugar
½ cup shortening
1 egg
3 cups flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. soda
½ tsp. salt
½ cup milk
Vanilla to taste
Make as sugar cookies. Cream sugar and shortening. Add egg and mix well. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk and vanilla. Roll out ¼-inch thick and cut into circles. Put 1 tsp. filling in center of each cookie and top with another cookie and seal edges. Bake at 375o F. for 10-12 minutes or until done.

Filling
2 cups washed and ground raisins (or figs)
1 cup sugar
1 cup water or juice of one orange

Boil up all ingredients and thicken with cornstarch. (Can grind a lot of raisins at a time and freeze them.)