Italian Anise Cookie

Dough Ingredients:

  • 1 bottle Anise seeds
  • 4 lbs flour
  • 1 lbs Crisco
  • 3 tsp cake amonia

Icing Ingredients:

  • 3 boxes powdered sugar
  • 14 oz. cream
  • 2 drops anise oil

Preparation:

This wonderful recipe has been handed down through generations. Cookies have a slighlty licorice flavor.

Boil anise seeds in 2 cups of water boil down to 1-1/2 cups set to cool, when cool mix all dough ingredients. Roll out dough use cookie cutter to cut in shape you prefer.

Put on ungreased baking sheet in 350° F oven. Cool. Mix ingredients for icing and pour thinly over cool cookies.

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