Jam Jam Cookies 1981

Directions

1. 1
   Combine shortening, sugars,vanilla, and beat well.
2. 2
   add eggs and salt.
3. 3
   add milk with the 1/2 tsp soda dissolved in it.
4. 4
   add flour and baking powder.
5. 5
   Make a soft dough.
6. 6
   Roll on a floured board and cut with a glass in rounds Bake 375 degrees for 11 minutes.
7. 7
   Until nicely browned.
8. 8
   Cool on a rack.
9. 9
   Smear jam onto the underside of a cookie and place another cookie over to make a sandwich cookie or add some marshmallow fluff on one side and jam on the other and sandwich together also.
10. 10
    Sometimes we ice with a butter icing one cookie, jam on the other then place them back to back.