{"id":1599,"date":"2013-01-04T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2013-01-04T11:20:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:20:30","slug":"date-nut-drop-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1599","title":{"rendered":"Date Nut Drop Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I make these every year at Christmas just for my Mother. They were one of her favourite O-Mommy Cookie recipes…not that Mother made them all that often, but she sure liked to have them made for her. Here I will share with you the recipe exactly the way O-Mommy passed it along to me. Yes, the recipe now resides on this page but I still have the battered, faded recipe index card that I transcribed the recipe onto 30 years ago!<\/p>\n

Although Mother passed away I made these cookies in quiet remembrance of her and probably will until I am unable to make them anymore. I think Mother liked them so much because they were gently spiced and contained yummy bits of dates.<\/p>\n

For Mother<\/p>\n

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One of my Mother’s Faves; Date Nut Drop Cookies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Preheat oven to 350F.
\nLine baking sheets with parchment paper.
\nCream together,<\/strong>
\n1 cup Shortening (sometimes I don’t have enough or none at all and will sub in some or all Butter)
\n1 1\/2 cups Sugar
\n3 Eggs
\nAdd<\/strong>
\n2 cups Chopped Dates
\n1 cup Chopped Walnuts
\n1 teaspoon Vanilla
\nBlend together [in a separate bowl]<\/strong>
\n2 1\/2 cups Flour
\n1 teaspoon Baking Soda
\n1 teaspoon Cinnamon
\n3\/4 teaspoon Nutmeg
\n1\/2 teaspoon Salt
\nAdd to date mixture, combine thoroughly.
\nDrop spoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
\nBake for 12 – 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

I use a #2 Pampered Chef Scoop.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>I let the cookies rest on the cookie sheets for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire cookie rack to cool completely.<\/p>\n

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I make these every year at Christmas just for my Mother. They were one of her favourite O-Mommy Cookie recipes…not that Mother made them all that often, but she sure liked to have them made for her. Here I will share with you the recipe exactly the way O-Mommy passed it along to me. Yes, … Continue reading Date Nut Drop Cookies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-cookies-and-other-delights","category-c-is-for-cookie-and-cookie-is-for-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}