Family Recipes
If anything has ever been true about our family we love to eat and we love to eat good food there have been countless holidays where we felt like the only thing left to do was fall asleep. Here is a collection of family recipes I am building if you have a recipe you would like to add please email it to me [email protected]
Mary Isabell Giese ( Doty)
Date Cookiess
Danna’s Date Cookies ~ 1983
These were from Grandma Mary Doty’s Christmas Cookies
I loved them as a child.
2 cups chopped dates
(or) ground raisins
(or) ½ jar mincemeat
½ cup sugar
½ cup water
Combine the ½ cup sugar and the ½ cup water in a sauce pan till thick.
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
4 tsp flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon (or) pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp nutmeg
1 ½ cups nuts
Cream butter, sugar and spices dates and nuts
Bake dropfull at 375 degrees for 12 -15 min