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Oatmeal Date Cakes

A cookie made with oatmeal mixture and date filling, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Oatmeal Date Cakes

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the oatmeal cookie mixture.

Shape and fill

  1. Cut cookies with a small round cutter and place two cookies together with the date filling in between.

  2. Alternatively, cut with a medium round cutter, place filling on half of each, fold over, and press edges down.

Bake

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for about 15 minutes.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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

Dates
Provide the sweet, sticky filling that holds the two cookies together.

“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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