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
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