Biscochitos

Ingredients

• 6 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 pound lard (a must, no substitutes)
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons anise seed
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup sweet table wine
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Cream the lard with sugar and anise seed on medium speed. In a separate bowl. beat eggs until light and fluffy. Add beaten eggs to creamed mixture. Mix together well, adding wine to form a stiff-like dough, add more wine, if necessary.

Refrigerate dough overnight.

Remove dough from refrigerator and let stand for a while, until dough is soft enough to roll. Divide dough in quarters and roll to about 1/16 to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutter and place on cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until bottom of cookie is golden brown. Remove from oven. In a bowl mix together sugar and cinnamon. Drop baked cookies into sugar and cinnamon mixture and set aside to cool.