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cookies flour sugar cinnamon cornstarch baking powder salt shortening lard water cinnamon sugar sugar cinnamon
Viewed: 5 - Published at: 2 days agoIngredients
- Cookies
- 12 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/4 cups shortening
- 2 1/4 cups lard
- 3/4 - 1 cup water
- Cinnamon Sugar topping
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 2 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Sift together all dry ingredients into a bowl and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whip together the shortening and lard until nice and light.
- Add the dry mixture slowly, one cup at a time (6 cups only first).
- Place the mixture on the countertop or on a table.
- Add the remaining dry mixture with the water and continue to knead the dough by hand until you form a good nice dough ball.
- Sprinkle some flour on the countertop or on the table and spread out the dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of 1/2 inches and use a cookie cutter to make cookies.
- Place on a cookie sheet.
- Bake in preheated oven for about 20 minutes.
- While cookies are being baked, mix together the topping ingredients in a bowl.
- Once the cookies come out of the oven, place one by one in the sugar and cinnamon mixture one at a time and sprinkle them with this mixture.
- Place on a cooling rack to finish cooling.
