Fruit Filled Spritz

💖 recipe from Mrs Donald Fish 💖

makes 6½ dozen cookies

• 4 cups sifted AP flour
• ½ tsp soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 3 eggs
• ½ tsp vanilla
• ½ tsp almond extract

Frutti Nut Filling

• 1 cup water
• ½ cup sugar
• 1¼ cups cut dates
• 2 tsp grated orange rind
• ½ cup candied cherries, finely chopped
• ½ cup coconut, flaked or shredded
• 1 cup nuts, chopped

Combine water, sugar, dates and orange rind in a soucepan and cook, stirring constantly until thick. When cool, stir in cherries, coconut, and nuts.

1. Sift together flour, soda, and salt.
2. Cream butter and sugars.
3. Blend in eggs, vanilla, and almond extract.
4. Add dry ingnedients gradually, mix well.
5. Chill about 2 hours.
6. Using saw-toothed spritz plate, press dough into strips across ungreased cookie sheet.
7. Spread each strip with filling. Press a second strip of dough over filling.
8. Bake at 375° for 12 to 15 minutes. Cut into 2 inch bars immediately.