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- From: "Miriam Siebenthall" <miriam@twg.com>
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Anise Cookie Recipe
- Date: 31 Mar 1994 21:18:15 -0500
- Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
- Message-ID: <2ng097$1v0@s.ms.uky.edu>
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- Holiday Anise Cookies:
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- 2 Cups Flour
- 2 Tsp ground Anise seed (you can substitute 1 Tsp anise extract.)
- 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
- 1/8 Tsp Salt
- 1 large lemon
- 2/3 Cup Sugar
- 1/2 Cup vegetable shortening
- 5 1/5 Tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
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- Decoration:
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Tsp ground cinnamon
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- Thoroughly stir together flour, anise, baking powder, and slat and set
- aside. Using a small sharp knife peel a thin layer of zest (without
- white membrane) from the entire lemon. Combine lemon zest and sugar in
- a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Process until zest is very
- finely minced. Add shortening and butter to the processor and process
- for one minute. Add egg yolk and vanilla and process 20 seconds
- longer. Add dry ingredients and continue processing just until they
- are blended.
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- Divide dough in half and place each portion between large sheets of
- waxed paper and roll out to 1/8 inch thick. Check the underside of the
- dough to check for any creases. Slide dough onto a large tray or
- baking sheet and refrigerate for 15 minutes, or until the dough is
- chilled and slightly firm.
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- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease several baking sheets.
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- Work one half of the dough at at time. Turn the dough over and peel
- the sheet of wax paper off of the dough and replace the paper loosely.
- Then turn the dough right side up. Peel off and discard the top sheet
- of paper. Using assorted 2 1/4 to 3" cookie cutters cut out cookies.
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- Place in the oven and bake for 8-10 minutes or until just brown ant the
- edges. Remove from the oven and let stand for 3 minutes. Transfer to
- wire racks and let stand until cooled completely. Sprinkle cookies
- with the decoration mixture.
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- Makes 35 to 40 cookies.
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