Native American Feast Day Cookies

Submitted by Chef Otaktay

"yummy cookies that will satisfy anyone at the rez or in your home:) its very good and delicious to try anytime :)"

 

• Ready In: 43mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 24-36 cookies

ingredients

• 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

directions

1. Preheat your oven to 350º 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.

Reviews

[Doug S.]

These sound good, but I am not sure how they could be indigenous Native American since flour was rarely used, and they would not have access to cinnamon or anise. I wonder if a more accurate version would include corn meal and fennel?

 

[makane1971]

very tasty cookie very easy to make i made these for the girl scouts cookies across cultures. I never liked anise because i hate black licorice i like red though and the anise smelled strong but didnt over power in the cookie tasted perfect!! these cookies are great, thankyou chef otaktay.