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Oatmeal Icebox Cookies

Total Time
51 min
15m prep · 36m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Medium
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🥬 Vegetarian 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

This recipe is one of my mother's refrigerator cookies that she made when I was little. The old fashioned sugar cookies that you have on your home page is exactly what mom used to make. They are wonderfully soft and a touch of nutmeg in them. You could not believe how many memories it brings back to me. This is another memory to enclose to you. This is a sandwich type cookie spread with jam in the center.

Ingredients

  • 0.5 cups shortening
  • 0.75 cups packed brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1.5 cups rolled oats
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 0.75 cups any flavor fruit jam

Instructions

  1. 1

    Cream together the shortening and sugar and beat in the egg until light.

  2. 2

    Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt and mix into the creamed mixture. Stir in the oatmeal and water until blended. Roll into a 2 inch roll and chill in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.

  3. 3

    Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

  4. 4

    Slice cookie dough thinly and bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 6-8 minutes. Cool and put together in sandwiches with jam.

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