How 'bout a date?

I remember these being on-hand anytime we went to Grandma's house. She had a ribbed clear glass plate with concentric painted circles that she used as a cookie plate when time came for a snack. I have the plate now in my cupboard; maybe I should fill it up!

Filled Cookies

1 cup crisco
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
- Cream; add 1 egg, salt, vanilla and 3 tbls. milk
Then add 3 cups flor, 1/2 tsp. soda. Chill one hour.
Roll out 1/8 in. thick. Make hole in top cookie to make sandwich style. Bake 375 oven in ungreased pan, 5 to 10 min.
Date Filling
Boil for 5 min. 2 cups chopped dates, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water.
Add salt and lemon.
Put between cookie, before baking.

Grandma noted "Eleanor" as the source. A later recipe cites "Eleanor C" and I know it's one of my Mom's recipes, so I think that just plain "Eleanor" must be Grandma's friend Eleanor K. Mom never made these cookies, so far as I know; another indication that the recipe probably came from somebody else.

"Fred likes these"

My grandfather had Parkinson's. He was always quiet; I remember sitting on his lap to be tickled, and laughing with him, but I don't remember him without the tremors or the illness. Parkinson's robbed him of his strength and his voice several years before he died in 1970.

So I was pleased to find him in my grandmother's recipe book - a little note in parentheses at the end of this recipe says (Fred likes these).

My Favorite Cookies
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
3-1/4 cup flour
2 eggs
pinch of salt
1/2 tsp. cream tartar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup nuts, raisins or cocoanut

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Add sifted flour, cream tartar & salt. Add rest of ingredients. Shape in long rolls - 2 inches in diameter. Place in ice box overnight. Slice in 1/4 inch slices and bake at 350 over for 12 to 15 min.

I'll have to try these. Maybe I'll like them too.