Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Sun 22 Feb 2009 10:51:10a, sf told us...
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>>> I'd rather have a midget stab me in the eye with a 5 year old nail file.
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>> Great! Go for it!
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> LOL! Know where we could hire a midget?

How often to you see midgets, anyway (I guess we should call them
"little people". Hell, let's be nice, after all it is Sunday, dammit ;-)
)? After dating for a number of years, my (now) husband decided to move
here, because I was not moving to Philadelphia. Nice city, but too cold.

We were looking around, trying to find a house, and we saw a little
person standing in line at a tamale stand. Later, he had to go to the
bathroom, so we went into a Dairy Queen, where we saw another little
person. We stopped for gas, and saw another one. He said, "What kind
of a place are you moving me to?" We have lived here for 2 years and we
have not saw a little person since then. Did I tell this story
already? I swear I am turning into my Aunt Ruby.

Becca

Justines

Makes 6 to 7 dozen small cookies

1 cup (2 sticks) butter
1 2/3 cups white sugar, divided
1 cup brown sugar
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped dates
1 cup rolled oats (uncooked)
1 cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In the large bowl of an electric mixer,
cream together the butter, 2/3 cup white sugar and the brown sugar. Add
egg, beating well. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt, and add to
butter-sugar mixture. Beat in vanilla, dates, oats and pecans; mixture
will be stiff. Add flour, if needed.

Roll large. marble-size amounts of the dough into balls. Place about one
cup of white sugar in a small bowl, roll dough balls in sugar, and place
on a greased cookie sheet about one inch apart. Flatten cookies a little
with your fingertips or the side of a knife. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes
or until top of cookies are puffed and bottoms are browned. Let cool a
few seconds in pan before transferring cookies to a wire rack to cool.

Store in an airtight container.