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Made with hard-boiled eggs! Often a Christmas cookie but good any time. Ingredients:
3/4 cup shortening |
1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar |
2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped |
2 cups all-purpose flour |
2 eggs, separated |
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar for decoration |
Directions:
1. In large bowl cream together shortening and confectioners' sugar. Beat in uncooked egg yolks and hard-boiled eggs. Gradually blend in flour. Cover dough and chill for 8 hours or overnight.
2. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and lightly grease two cookie sheets.
3. Roll out dough on floured surface to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut into pencil thick strips about 6 to 8 inches long.
4. For each cookie, braid three strips and form into a circle pinching ends together. Place cookies 1 inch apart on cookie sheets. Brush with the beaten eggwhites. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
5. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until lightly colored. Cool on wire racks.
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