Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 pk (12 oz.) moist dried figs;
1/4 c Sugar;
3/4 c ;water;
2 tb Lemon juice;
1/2 c Butter; or margarine
1 c Sugar, brown; packed
2 ea Eggs;
1 ts Vanilla;
2 1/2 c Flour;
1/2 ts Salt;
1/2 ts Baking soda;

For filling: finely chop figs and mix in saucepan with sugar, water
and lemon juice. Place over medium heat; cook, stirring for 10 min.
or until thick jam- like. Remove from heat; cool. Cover and chill.
With mixer, beat together butter, sugar, eggs vanilla until well
blended. Mix flour, salt baking soda. Stir into first mixture;
dough will be stiff. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill 3-4 hours or
overnight. When ready to bake, turn dough out onto lightly floured
surface. Roll into a 14x12 rectangle. Cut into 4 strips 3-1/2 x 12
inches long. Spoon filling evenly down center of strips. With
spatula, turn in sides of strips. Press edges together to seal. Cut
each strip into 10 pieces. Arrange seam side down on baking s sheets.
Bake at 375 for 10-12 min. or until firm and lightly browned. Cool on
racks. Store airtight.

Note: chilling dough overnight is best.

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Food Wine RT [*] Category 4, Topic 3 Message 235 Fri May 21, 1993
COOKIE-LADY [Cookie] at 10:52 EDT

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