Date Wafers
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Roll the dough as thin as possible.
Spread a layer of dates over the rolled dough.
Cover with another layer of dough of the same thickness.
Cut into squares.
Bake
Bake until golden brown.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Dough from graham finger rolls
- Forms the thin crisp wrapper that encloses the filling and browns in the oven.
- Washed and seeded dates
- Provides the sweet, soft filling that is layered between the two sheets of dough.
The step that matters
Rolling the dough as thin as possible. Thin dough bakes quickly into crisp, evenly browned wafers. Thick dough stays doughy in the centre and can burn at the edges before it is cooked through.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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