Old Fashioned Green Tomato Cookies

grandma2969's Note:

These are wonderful..came up with the recipe while trying to use up green tomatoes at the end of the season.

• Total Time: 35 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 3 dozen

COOKIE BATTER

• 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
• ½ cup butter or ½ cup margarine , softened
• 1 egg , well beaten
• ½ cup milk
• 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• ½ teaspoon salt

FILLING for cookies

• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 1 ½ cups fresh green tomatoes , chopped
• 1 lemon , rind and juice

Directions:

1. In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, cornstarch and tomato pieces. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until very thick. Add grated rind and juice of 1 lemon, stir well and heat again to bubbling. Chill thoroughly.
2. For the cookie batter, cream granulated sugar and butter till fluffy. Add egg and milk and blend well. In a small bowl, combine flour, soda, cream of tartar and salt. Add to creamed mixture and blend well Chill at least 1 hour.
3. To assemble cookies, roll chilled dough to 1/8" thickness and cut cookies with the outer ring of a doughnut cutter, or cookie cutter. Top half the cookies with 1 tbls of chilled filling. Using the center ring from the remaining half of the cut out cookies and place on top of filled halves. Crimp edges with a fork to seal and bake in a 350* oven 15-20 minutes, or until lightly browned.