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Norwegian wreath cookies

These are decorative holiday cookies adding quite a bright, colorful aromatic touch to your plate of cookies.

Ingredients

(6 dozen)

Procedure

  1. Heat oven to 200C
  2. Mix thoroughly butter, shortening, sugar, orange peel, and eggs.
  3. Blend in flour. Color with green food coloring, if desired.
  4. Shape dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into ropes, each 15 cm long and 5 mm in diameter.
  5. Form each rope into a circle, bringing one end over the other and through into a single knot. Let 1 cm extend at each end.
  6. Place on ungreased baking sheet.
  7. Press in red cinnamon candies, if desired.
  8. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set but not brown.
  9. Immediately remove from baking sheet.

Rating


Difficulty: moderate (requires some dexterity).
Time: 1 hour.
Precision: Measure the ingredients.

Contributor

 
Cindy W. Poehlmann 
AT&T Network Systems, Columbus, Ohio, USA 
{cbosgd,cbatt}!cbdkc1!cwp 
 
Recipe last modified: 16 Dec 86

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 08:37:15 PST
From: cwp@cbdkc1.uucp (Cindy W. Poehlmann)
Newsgroups: mod.recipes
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Subject: RECIPE: Norwegian wreath cookies
Organization: AT&T Network Systems, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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