For pastry dough

2 cups flour
3 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons shortening
2/3 cup milk

For Filling
1 cup chopped figs

For brushing top of pastry dough
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon sugar

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar; add shortening and rub in very lightly.

Add slowly enough milk to form stiff dough.

Roll out 1/4 inch thick on floured board, handling as little as possible.

Cut into squares and on each piece put one tablespoon of fig.

Brush tops with egg beaten with one tablespoon milk and one teaspoon sugar.

Bake about 20 minutes in hot oven.

This recipe was taken from The New Dr. Price Cook Book by The Royal Baking Powder Factory (Chicago). The cookbook was possibly published in the early 1900s; no date is indicated. For the entire copyright-free cookbook visit www.gutenberg.org.... Photo: Mary Melfi

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