Finnish Trobie Cookies
From oregongrandma 17 years ago
- 12 minutes to make
- Serves 24
My grandmother was from Finland and this was my dad's favorite cookie. Crisp with a date center. No eggs are required for this recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 cup shortening - part butter shopping list
- 1 cup brown sugar shopping list
- 2 cups flour shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. salt shopping list
- 1 tsp. baking soda dissolved in 1/2 cup sour milk shopping list
- 2 cups quick cooking oats shopping list
- Recipe for date filling: shopping list
- 1 lb. dates cut up small shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 1 cup water. Cook until thick. Cool. shopping list
How to make it
- Cream sugar and shortening.
- add alternatly with flour and sour milk
- then stir in oats. Chill dough
- Roll dough quite thin and cut into circles.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 10 or 12 minutes.
- When cool, add filling and put together sandwich style.
- Note: This recipe is quite old and I wrote it as it was.
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I know this cookie really well because we also have Finnish in our ancestry. This is a great 5 fork recipe and what a surprise to see it here! Thank you.
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Love the old recipes. Everyone always has their own little secret to make the recipe "their own". Thanks for sharing!
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