Clothes-pin Cookies.(lady-locks.)

Total Time: 1 hr 12 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup milk
• 5 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup crisco
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 4 cups flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 lb margarine or 1 lb butter
• 8 ounces sour cream (i used plain no-fat yogurt)

Recipe

• 1 make filling 1st, put in fridge till cookies are baked.
• 2 filling: cook on low til thickened, milk, flour.
• 3 cool in fridge.
• 4 beat tog marg and crisco.
• 5 beat well.
• 6 add vanilla, and sugar.
• 7 beat well.
• 8 add the cooled flour mixture& beat, beat beat!
• 9 dough: measure flour, add a pinch salt.
• 10 cut in 1 pound marg or butter (as for pie crust).
• 11 blend in sour ceam (i used plain no-fat yogurt).
• 12 refrigerate overnite or at least 6 hours.
• 13 cut dough into 4 pieces.
• 14 roll out thin, 1 piece at a time (keep rest in fridge til ready to roll).
• 15 cut rolled piece into 1"x 4" long pieces.
• 16 wrap loosely around pins, (see note) making sure dough overlaps somewhat, so as to not have"holes" or"gaps".
• 17 bake 350 about 12-15 minutes or till very lite golden color.
• 18 do not brown.
• 19 when cool use pastry bag to fill;note: some stores sel the box of metal-"pins" to use.
• 20 i have 1 box but it's not enough, so, i use clothes pins also.