Benne-seed wafers - country living
4 dozen wafe
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | cup | Unsifted all-purpose flour |
| 1 | tablespoon | Sugar |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | cup | (1/2 stick) butter |
| 3 | tablespoons | Vegetable shortening |
| ⅔ | cup | Sesame seeds, toasted |
| 1 | Large egg | |
| 3 | tablespoons | Milk |
Directions
1. In medium-size bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt. With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter and shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in sesame seeds.
2. In small bowl, beat together egg and milk; reserve 2 T mixture for glaze. Mixing lightly with fork, add remaining egg mixture to flour mixture until soft dough forms. Turn dough out onto lightly floured surface and knead for 1 minute. 3. Heat oven to 350'F. Grease 2 large baking sheets. On floured surface, roll out dough to ⅛-inch thickness. Using lightly floured, 2½-inch round or holiday cookie cutters, cut out dough into wafers. Knead trimmings together and re-roll to cut out more wafers.
4. Arrange wafers on greased baking sheets; brush tops with reserved egg mixture. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until bottoms brown slightly.
Cool wafers completely on sheets on wire rack. Store wafers in airtight container.
Country Living/Dec/91 Scanned & fixed by DP and GG