BISCOCHOS

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Yield 300 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 14

6 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon (freshly ground when possible)
¼ teaspoon ginger
1 pound lard or shortening
1 egg
1 ½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup wine, orange juice or water
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 tablespoons anise seed
Sugar and Cinnamon Coating
1 cup granulated sugar
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Sift flour with the next four (4) dry ingredients. Cream the lard or shortening until smooth. Add sugar, egg, vanilla, and liquid. Pour wet ingredients into flour mixture. Add anise seeds at this time and knead together. If mixture is too sticky add some flour. Roll out the dough onto a floured board or counter and cut out biscochos using a small-floured cookie cutter or you can put the dough into a cookie shooter using your favorite design. You will have to re-knead and roll out the dough several times until you have used all of the dough. Place the biscochos onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for about 8-10 minutes. While biscochos are baking, mix the sugar and cinnamon "coating" ingredients in a wide bowl. Set aside for coating baked biscochos. After baking, coat biscochos with the sugar and cinnamon mixture.