Native American Feast Day Cookies

• 2/3 cup sugar, plus
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup lard or 2/3 cup vegetable shortening
• 1 egg
• 2 cups unbleached flour, sifted
• 4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon anise seed
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1/2 cup pine nuts, chopped
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1. Preheat your oven to 350u0b0 F.
2. In a mixing bowl, cream 2/3 cup of sugar and lard.
3. Add egg and blend thoroughly.
4. Stir in the flour, baking powder, vanilla, and anise seed, blending thoroughly.
5. Gradually add milk until a stiff dough is formed.
6. Mix in the pinon nuts.
7. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured board to 1/2 inch thickness.
8. Cut into 2 inch cookies with a cookie cutter.
9. Sprinkle the tops with mixture of the remaining sugar and cinnamon.
10. Bake the cookies on a well greased baking sheet for about 15 minutes or until golden.
11. Cool on a rack.
12. Makes 2 dozen two inch cookies.

sugar, sugar, lard, egg, unbleached flour, baking powder, vanilla extract, anise seed, milk, pine nuts, ground cinnamon

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/native-american-feast-day-cookies-164862 (may not work)