Lard cookies

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Lard
9/16 cup Sugar
1 cup Buttermilk
9/16 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
1 Heaping teaspoon baking powder
3 cups Flour (or enough flour to make a soft dough which will hold together for rolling)

Directions

COWPOKES' COOKBOOK; ACE REID

Melt lard; then cool until lukewarm. Sift all dry ingredients together. Add lard to dry ingredients. Add buttermilk. Mix well. Roll dough to ½ inch thickness on floured board. Cut large round cookies. Cook until brown, about 12 minutes.

Recipe from Bob Totten

"This recipe has been handed down three generations. Grandma Totten said that the "new" shortenings just didn't work as well as lard - besides lard's cheaper"

Nutritional Information per serving: xx calories, xx gm protein, xx gm carbohydrate, xx gm fat, x% Calories from fat, x mg chol, xx mg sodium, x g dietary fiber

Posted on GEnie Food & Wine RT Oct 04, 1993 by COOKIE-LADY [Cookie] MM by MMCONV and Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, Internet sylvia.steiger@..., moderator of GT Cookbook and PlanoNet Lowfat & Luscious echoes

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