Recipe For Cooking Clothespin Cookies

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Clothespin Cookies

You will need the old-fashioned one-piece wooden clothespins to make this recipe.

Cookies
1 lb. vegetable shortening, divided
3 C. flour
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 egg yolks
1 1/4 C. water

Filling
1 C. milk
4 Tbsp. flour
1/2 lb. butter
2 C. powderedsugar
6 Tbsp. Marshmallow Crème
1 tea. vanilla extract

Beat together egg yolks and water. Cut 1/4 C. vegetable shortening into flour and sugar and add the egg yolks and water and mix as for pastry. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

Roll dough out and spread with 1/4 of the vegetable shortening. Do this three times.

When it is time to roll out and bake, work with 1/4 of the dough at a time. Cut into about 8-in. strips and wind loosely around clothes pins and bake at 425 degrees for 5 min. and then at 375 degrees F for 10 min. Let cool only about 2 min. and work gently off pin as cookies are crisp and easy to break.

Filling: Cook until thick the milk and flour. Let cool. Cream together butter, powderedsugar, Marshmallow Crème and vanilla extract or flavoring. Add milk mixture to creamed mixture. This recipe will fill over 100 cookies. The filling can be tinted any color you desire. Use a pastry tube to fill cookies.