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      Title: Jack and Jill Cookies
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 36 servings
 
    1/2 c  Shortening
      1 c  Packed brown sugar
    3/4 ts Salt
      1 ts Vanilla
      1    Egg
    3/4 c  Sifted flour (sift before
           -measuring)
    1/2 ts Baking powder
    1/4 ts Salt
      1 c  Rolled oats
    1/2 c  Finely chopped uncooked
           -prunes
    1/2 c  Finely chopped dried
           -apricots
           Or dates or raisins
 
  Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1/29/96
     Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine shortening, brown sugar, salt,
  vanilla and egg; beat until well mixed. Sift together flour, baking powder
  and salt; stir into shortening mixture. Stir in oats, prunes and apricots.
  Put tablespoons of dough on greased cookie sheets and flatten with a
  flat-bottomed glass covered with a damp cloth. Bake 10 to 12 minutes.
  Yield: 3 dozen.
 
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