Aunt Kate's Cherry Cookies
From gelfling545 13 years ago
- 30 min. to make
- Serves varies
My Great-Aunt used to make cherry cookies for me when I was a child but the recipe was apparently known to her alone. I have searched hundreds of recipes and eventually pieced together an approximation so my descendants can get a taste of my childhood.
Ingredients
- 1C shortening shopping list
- 1C brown sugar shopping list
- 1C chopped maraschino cherries, drained (reserve juice) shopping list
- 3 eggs shopping list
- 1T anise extract shopping list
- 4C flour shopping list
- 1t baking powder shopping list
- 1t baking soda shopping list
How to make it
- Combine dry ingredients; in a large bowl cream shortening & sugars, add cherries and beat in eggs 1 at a time. Add 2 or 3 T of the cherry juice and anise extract. Mix in dry ingredients. These are better with1C of walnuts added but may be made without them. If you use nuts, add with dry ingredients
- Drop by TBSP. onto cookie sheet and bake at 350 for about 10 min.
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