NEW YORK LEMON ITALIAN COOKIES
2 cups flour, sifted once
4 tbsp. sugar
4 tbsp. vegetable shortening
1 tsp. lemon extract
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
Frosting (recipe follows)
Sprinkling decorations, nutmeats, coconut, colored candies, etc.
Sift flour. Add baking powder and sugar and sift again. Cut in shortening and add milk, egg, and lemon extract. Blend thoroughly.
Flour hands and pinch out about 1 teaspoon of dough and roll into a ball. Repeat process and place on greased cookie sheets, 2 1/2-inches apart.
Bake at 375 degrees F for 10 to 15 minutes. Set cookies on rack to cool.
Put on Frosting on cooled cookies and diversify your sprinkling decorations; nutmeats, coconut, colored candies, etc.
FROSTING
2 cups confectioner's sugar
1/3 cup shortening
Heated milk (as needed)
Mix together confectioner's sugar, 1/3 cup shortening and enough heated milk to make spreading consistency.
ABOUT THE RECIPE:
"Ruth Benedetto is a medical technologist who for years has made and given cookie platters for Christmas gifts an other special occasions. The doctors she works for and their assistants always look forward to getting their favorites as well as the new cookies Ruth tries to add each year. Three or four years ago, Ruth found this Lemon Italian Cookies recipe in one of the many cookbooks in her collection. "This recipe came from a book that was written partly in Italian, so I feel sure these are authentic." Ruth said."
Pine Grove United Methodist Church
Albany, New York
Sheila DeFelice, Chairperson
Source: Capitol Cookies by Fundcraft Publishing
2 cups flour, sifted once
4 tbsp. sugar
4 tbsp. vegetable shortening
1 tsp. lemon extract
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
Frosting (recipe follows)
Sprinkling decorations, nutmeats, coconut, colored candies, etc.
Sift flour. Add baking powder and sugar and sift again. Cut in shortening and add milk, egg, and lemon extract. Blend thoroughly.
Flour hands and pinch out about 1 teaspoon of dough and roll into a ball. Repeat process and place on greased cookie sheets, 2 1/2-inches apart.
Bake at 375 degrees F for 10 to 15 minutes. Set cookies on rack to cool.
Put on Frosting on cooled cookies and diversify your sprinkling decorations; nutmeats, coconut, colored candies, etc.
FROSTING
2 cups confectioner's sugar
1/3 cup shortening
Heated milk (as needed)
Mix together confectioner's sugar, 1/3 cup shortening and enough heated milk to make spreading consistency.
ABOUT THE RECIPE:
"Ruth Benedetto is a medical technologist who for years has made and given cookie platters for Christmas gifts an other special occasions. The doctors she works for and their assistants always look forward to getting their favorites as well as the new cookies Ruth tries to add each year. Three or four years ago, Ruth found this Lemon Italian Cookies recipe in one of the many cookbooks in her collection. "This recipe came from a book that was written partly in Italian, so I feel sure these are authentic." Ruth said."
Pine Grove United Methodist Church
Albany, New York
Sheila DeFelice, Chairperson
Source: Capitol Cookies by Fundcraft Publishing
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