Recipe For Cooking Stained Glass Cookies

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Stained Glass Cookies

1 C. margarine
3/4 C. sugar
1 egg
1 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
2 3/4 C. flour
1/2 tea. salt
1 C. Quaker oats (quick or old-fashioned; uncooked)
3/4 C. finely chopped nuts
3/4 C. strawberry preserves
3/4 C. apricot preserves
3/4 C. pineapple preserves (tinted green)

Beat together margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Blend in egg and vanilla extract or flavoring. Add combined flour and salt; mix well. Stir in oats. Chill several hr..

Roll out dough about 1/8-in. thick on surface with powderedsugar. Cut with 3-in. assorted shaped cookie cutters. Using smaller cutter or sharp knife, cut out sm. design in center of half the cookies. Sprinkle nuts over cookies with cut-out centers. Press lightly. Place plain cookies onto greased cookie sheet. Top each with about 1 tea. preserves, spreading slightly. Top with nut-covered cookies. Bake in preheated moderate 375 degrees F oven 10 to 12 min.

Makes about 2 dozen cookies.