Apricot Squares Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup (c) shortening
* 1/2 c sugar
* 1 ea Egg, well beaten
* 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
* 1 1/2 c flour
* 1 1/2 ts baking powder
* 1/2 ts salt
* 1/2 ts cinnamon
* 1 pn cloves
* 2 tablespoon milk
* 3/4 c apricot preserves

Method:

* Take about 1/2 cup shortening and cream it.
* Add on sugar to it and continue creaming till it becomes fluffy.
* Add eggs and lemon juice and beat them well.
* Take a bowl and put all the dry ingredients in it for sifting with milk.
* Take a well-greased pan and spread the batter prepared but only half the quantity.
* Add on apricot preserves to it for covering purpose.
* Put the remaining half batter into it.
* Bake the batter for nearly half an hour at a temperature of 400 degrees.
* When the color of the mixture has turned golden, take it out from the oven for cooling it. Once the batter has cooled down, cut them in the shape of squares.