Anise Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 lb sugar (scant)
• 1 tablesp butter
• 3 or 4 eggs
• % cup almonds, blanched and chopped
• 0.5 teasp anise seed
• flour to make a dough stiff enough to knead
• 1 teasp baking powder
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar with butter, eggs, almonds, anise seed, and flour with baking powder and salt to make a stiff dough.

2. 2

   Form into a loaf, let stand overnight, cut into slices, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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