Italian Fig Cookies

2 cups shortening
3 cups white sugar
6 eggs
8 cups all-purpose flour
7 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
pinch salt
milk
3 - 5 pounds of figs
1 pound raisins
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 cup white sugar
1 whole orange (with peel)
1 small apple
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

To make dough, cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs, vanilla, and salt. Blend in flour and baking powder by hand. Knead dough until smooth and workable. Add milk to reach workable consistency.

To make filling, cut up figs, orange, and apple into small pieces, then pass through a food mill or grinder. The spices and chopped nuts are added to the ground fig mixture. After the fig mixture is ground, sprinkle them in over the mixture and mix it in by hand.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Roll out some dough faily thin. Put fig mixture in a line. Wrap dough over mixture, sealing figs inside dough. Trim to desired length, using a diagonal cut. Make small diagonal slits in the sides of the cookies. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 10-15 minutes.

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Gloria Rollins in Clearwater FL Dec 21, 2006
Would make this again.
Cookies are wonderful. Just gave the recipe to a friend who said they were the best cookies she ever had.

A foodie in buffalo, ny Dec 11, 2005
Would make this again.
Fig cookies really are the best Italian cookie, Only we make the filling about a week before we make the cookies. Keep it in the fridge and add 1/3 cup of Rum everyday and stir. Keep it moist that whole week. We use a croch pot.You may think that is a lot of rum and would be strong but you dont taste it all that much. A great snack before bed. Puts you right to sleep.
Enjoy, Drew from Buffalo, NY

Marianne Jensen in Colorado Springs Feb 26, 2004
Would make this again.
I would make this recipe again because they taste so good. It is the same one my mom and grandmother and aunts made when I was young and they split the cookies between themselves. They put in a little whiskie and they added dates, which is fine without dates. It is fairly easy to make and you could also use a food processor. It is the best Christmas cookie recipe ever!!

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