Grandma's Italian Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: COOKIE DOUGH RECIPE:
2 1/2 c. sugar
5 c. flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
Dash of salt
4 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 c. Crisco oil
Sesame seeds
ICING RECIPE: Powdered sugar and milk, until consistency to ice cookies. You may use cold coffee in place of milk. You can color the icing, if desired. Sprinkle with chopped pecans or cookie decorations quickly, before the icing hardens.
FILLING RECIPE:
I large jar mincemeat
1 c. honey
small container mixed, candied fruit
1 pkg. chopped dates
2 c. chopped pecans
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Directions:Mix oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Stir in baking powder and flour gradually. Roll dough into long strips and cut into 1 inch pieces. You can sprinkle sesame seeds onto the work surface and roll the dough into the sesame seeds, if you want to add them. Bake at 350º until lightly browned around the edges. Watch closely.
If icing the cookies, allow them to cool and then ice them. You can have a variety of icing colors and use different sprinkles, as well. The icing truly is simple. I never measure it, just put some powdered sugar in a bowl and add milk a little at a time, until it is the right consistency. Then either color the icing or ice the cookies and add sprinkles or nuts.
if making cockies using the filling, Roll out the dough and cut into circles using a jar or a round cookie cutter. Put the cookies on the cookie sheets, then add the filling to the middle of each cookie, making sure that the filling stays in the middle of the cookies. If you add too much filling, the filling may spread too much and the cookies will stick to the cookie sheets.
You will not use the filling and the icing on the same cookies. |
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Notes: This recipe was from our grandmother, Maria Marino, who immigrated to America in 1918 from Italy with our grandfather, Bruno Marino. Grandma died in 1994 at the age of 96 years old. Grandpa died in 1969 at the age of 70.
At Christmas time, when we would travel to North Carolina for Christmas, we would make these cookies and store them in five-gallon buckets to keep them fresh until our family meal on Christmas Day and afterwards. Wonderful memories and delicious cookies!
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