Grandma's Christmas Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: 2 eggs
1 1/3 cups sugar
1/3 cup butter or margarine
1/3 cup Crisco® shortening (although any brand will do)
2/3 cup milk
1/3 teaspoon of Hartshorn (ammonium carbonate)--not absolutely necessary, but makes the dough less sticky (see personal notes)
1/2 teaspoon anise oil (not extract)
4 1/3 cups of flour
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Directions:Preheat oven to 400º F.
Beat 2 eggs until light and fluffy. Add 1 1/3 cups of sugar and beat well. Melt 1/3 cup of butter or margarine with 1/3 cup of Crisco®. Add butter and Crisco® mix to egg and sugar and mix well.
Heat (not too hot) 2/3 cup of milk. Add 1/3 teaspoon of Hartshorn - make sure it dissolves - and 1/2 teaspoon of anise oil to milk. Add milk mixture to egg mixture.
Add 4 1/3 cups of flour to mixture - 1 cup at a time. Roll dough thin and use cookie cutters. Bake 7-10 minutes.
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Want to make your own icing?
Confectioner's sugar
Margarine
Milk
Vanilla extract
Add milk (small amount at a time) to sugar and margarine until slightly thick. Add a drop or 2 of vanilla extract. You can add food coloring - 1 drop at a time.
The icing recipe is vague because it depends on the number of cookies you make. |
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Notes: I found my grandma's "Christmas Cookie" recipe for anise cookies. She made a tin full every holiday season. She died in 2008, but making these cookies (which can be time consuming) brings back wonderful memories of her.
The Hartshorn can be obtained at the pharmacy. a pharmacy that compounds would be the best bet to get some. It is not absolutely necessary, but makes the dough less sticky.
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