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| 1. To Make Dough: Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs, vanilla, and salt. Blend in flour and baking powder by hand. Knead dough until smooth and workable. Add milk to reach workable consistency. (This takes a while and you will get a workout, but you'll know when it's right.) | 2. To Make Filling: Cut up figs, orange, and apple into small pieces. (It is easier to grind this way). Grind figs, raisins, orange, and apple. If the mixture is too dry or thick, mix in up to 1 cup of water, if desired. (I do not use the water, the juice from the apple and orange are enough). The spices and chopped nuts are added to the ground fig mixture. After the fig mixture is ground, I sprinkle them in over the mixture and mix (knead) it in by hand. STICKY! But good. | 3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). | 4. Roll out some dough. (should be kind of thin). Put fig mixture in a line. Wrap dough over mixture, sealing figs inside dough. Trim to desired length, using a diagonal cut. Make small diagonal slits in the sides of the cookies. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 10-15 minutes. (Dough makes good cookies without the filling also). Wonderful with coffee. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
shortening	2	cups		3624.4	0.0	0.0	410.0
white sugar	3	cups		2322.0	599.88	0.0	0.0
egg	6			429.0	2.16	37.68	28.53
purpose flour	8	cups		-	-	-	-
baking powder	7	teaspoons		17.066	8.9194	0.0	0.0
vanilla extract	2	tablespoons		74.88	3.2889999999999997	0.0156	0.0156
salt	1	pinch		-	-	-	-
milk	2	cups		297.68	23.3264	15.372	15.9576
fig	4	pounds		1342.635	347.9965	13.6078	5.4431
raisin	1	pound		1369.8506	360.6971	15.3768	2.0865
cinnamon	2	teaspoons	ground	-	-	-	-
white sugar	1/2	cup		2322.0	599.88	0.0	0.0
orange	1			1.7625	0.4406	0.0352	0.0045
apple	1			77.48	20.5769	0.3874	0.2533
pecan	1 1/2	cups	chopped	429.52	80.49600000000001	8.84	9.048
water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.