Christmas/Wedding Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: 4 ½ cups Flour
½ cup plus 1/3 cup shortening
½ cup plus 1/3 cup Lard
1 3 ½ long Cinnamon Stick
1 ½ tablespoons Cinnamon
2 ½ cups Sugar
8 cups Water
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Directions:Mix 1 1/2 cups sugar and 1 1/2 tablespoons of cinnamon into bowl set aside.
Place 4 cups of water in a pot with the 3 ½ inch long cinnamon stick and boil till ½ cup to ¾ cup water remains. Remove cinnamon stick and reserve the cinnamon water. Repeat process with the remaining 4 cups water and the same cinnamon stick until ½ cup cinnamon water remains. Remove cinnamon stick and combine both cinnamon waters and add 1 cup sugar. Boil until sugar dissolves and water thickens until ¾ or 1 cup cinnamon/sugar water remains. Set aside.
Cut shortening and lard into the flour with knives until it resembles coarse meal. Add the cinnamon/sugar water a little at a time to the flour shortening/lard mixture. Using your hands to mix and form dough into ball. Separate dough into 4 balls. Using one ball at a time and covering the remaining balls of dough with plastic wrap, roll the dough to ¼ inch thick. Cut dough using small cookie cutters that are of easy shape, such as hearts, squares, diamonds and ovals. Bake for 10 minutes 350.
Remove from oven and using a spatula immediately put the cookies into the bowl with the cinnamon and sugar mixture covering cookies completely. Shaking off excess cinnamon/sugar mixture, place cookies on foil and allow the cookies to cool. Store cookies in airtight containers. This recipe can be doubled. |
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Notes: We got this every Christmas from my Grandmother in a coffee can all the way from Premont, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska. I won 3rd place at the Tulsa State Fair for best cookie.
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