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December 1964

If you think of fig cookies as gooey with fruity filling, these will open your eyes. Here the fruit is treated like nuts, ground into the dough to contribute a gorgeous crumbly texture and very figgy fragrance to shortbread.

This is just one of Gourmet’s Favorite Cookies: 1941-2008. Although we’ve retested the recipes, in the interest of authenticity we’ve left them unchanged: The instructions below are still exactly as they were originally printed.

Cream 1 cup butter, add 1/4 cup sugar, and beat the mixture until it is fluffy. Stir in 1 cup pecans, ground, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix 2 cups sifted flour with 1 cup ground dried figs and stir into the creamed mixture. Form the dough into small finger shapes, and arrange them on buttered baking sheets and bake the cookies in a slow oven (300° F.) for 25 to 30 minutes. Be careful that they don’t brown.

Photograph by Romulo Yanes

Keywords: favorite cookies 1941-2008,; cookies,; winter,; fruit,; nuts

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