Date Rolls Recipe ingredients

• 1½ cups sifted pastry flour
• ¼ cup hard vegetable shortening, such as crisco
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup milk or water
• Stoned dates

To prepare this Date Rolls Recipe, first mix the flour and the salt. Rub the shortening into the flour with the hands. Stir in the liquid, and work to a dough. Knead well till the dough is smooth. When well kneaded, roll it out with a rolling-pin into a sheet one-eighth inch thick. Cut the sheet into strips two inches wide. Lay halves of stoned dates along the middle of these strips. Wet one edge of the strip. Then roll the strip sidewise over the dates so as to make a long roll about three-fourths inch in diameter having dates through its entire length. Cut the roll into two-inch pieces. Bake till nicely browned.

Raisins or strips of figs may be used instead of the dates.