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How To Make a Polish Christmas Cookie- Chrust

buzzard33 | Sep 12, 2009 | Views: 58 |

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We are all looking for different Christmas Cookies and I am no exception. If you read my other recipes, you will have a good idea why I like to cook. These are very light even when cooked in lard. You try one, and you wish you had made more. Your kids will demolish them if you do not keep on eye on them. If you let them help you make them (Shaking them in the bag) you'll wish you hadn't. Just think of me laughing in the background.

Things You Will Need

4 eggs

1 egg white

¼ cup powdered sugar

½ tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

1 Tbsp rum

1 cup flour

Optional: cook in lard (best) or oil

Step 1 Start by adding salt to the eggs and hand whisk for 10 minutes
Step 2

Next, add sugar, the flavoring, and whisk all until well blended

Step 3

Now fold in the flour

Step 4 Transfer the dough to a well-floured board and knead until the dough blisters
Step 5 When finished kneading, cut the dough into two halves
Step 6 Roll out one (1) of the haves using a rolling pin into a very thin layer & cut into strips about four (4) inches long and one (1) inch wide.
Step 7 Slit each piece in center (Slit is parallel to the long edge) and pull one end through the slit (it will look almost like a bow tie), and set aside on plate lined with wax paper
Step 8 Fry two (2) or three (3) at a time in hot fat (Lard*) until lightly browned. They cook so fast you do not want to burn them. Each stove is different- 15 seconds, 30 seconds, or 45 seconds on each side. I repeat, watch them closely so they won’t burn. If they look dark brown, you just burned them.
Step 9 Drain each cookie on an absorbent paper towel and sprinkle or shake them in a zip lock bag with powered 10x sugar.