Infamous Water Cookie Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 lb. lard or margarine
2 lbs. flour (about 8 cups of flour)
8 tbsp. sugar
11/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
3 or 4 eggs beaten
1 cup lukewarm milk
1/2 yeast
Baking soda
1 lemon rind
1 tbsp. lemon juice
Filling:
4 lb. walnuts
3 lb. prunes
Apricots can be used also
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Directions:Mix lard, flour, sugar, salt, vanilla and 4 beaten eggs like a pie crust. Add lukewarm milk with 1/2 yeast or little more and knead like bread. Let stand 3 hours.
Roll out in powdered sugar and sugar
Cut into squares. Put in filling
Spread top of cookie with beaten egg and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Bake in oven 450 degrees.
Let stand to cool before removing from pan. |
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Notes: This recipe may need a little tweaking since there are notes Nonna Mela added to the original written recipe. They delicious cookies and are infamous. Nonna Mela would make these cookies and they were one of her favorites. She gave the recipe to a local teacher who submitted it to a national contest. We believe that this may have occurred sometime during World War II.
The "Water Cookie" won a prize and national acclaim with some prize money as well. Nonna Mela never forgot that she gave her recipe to someone else, who took credit for it and won the prize. From that day forward, Nonna Mela was somewhat secretive about her recipes and would often leave out an ingredient or two, leaving you to wonder why your recipe was not as tasty as hers.
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