Date and Nut Chews

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Title: Date and Nut Chews
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 36 servings

2 Eggs
3/4 ts Salt
1/2 ts Almond extract
1/2 c Granulated sugar
1/2 c Light or dark corn syrup
1 c Finely chopped dates
1 c Chopped nuts
3/4 c All-purpose flour
Powdered sugar

Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 12/2/96 Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Grease a 9-by-13-inch pan.

Place eggs in large bowl. Add salt and almond extract. Beat until light.
Gradually beat in sugar and corn syrup. Add dates and nuts; mix well. Sift
flour. Fold into other ingredients. Pour into pan.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from oven; while still hot, cut into 1
1/2-inch squares. (If necessary, discard squares from the four corners of
the pan; that portion may be too hard.) Shape at once into small balls,
taking care not to burn your hands. Roll in powdered sugar, or put sugar
and cookies in a paper bag and shake.

Yield: 3 dozen cookies. Tester's note: Moist cookie with a nice texture
from the chopped nuts.

Nancy Ayres, East Alton-Wood River High School.

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