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Teatime favourites: Vintage Tuscan tea cookies

30/01/2016

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Anette van Tonder of Piketberg says her children love these cookies!

Anette’s recipe for old Tuscan tea cookies

Vintage Tuscan tea cookies

Ingredients

  • 900 g flour
  • 5 ml baking soda
  • 15 ml baking powder
  • squeezed juice and zest of 1 lemon
  • 450 g sugar
  • 4 eggs, beaten
  • 500 g ricotta cheese
  • 230 g softened butter
  • Sift 10 ml ground cinnamon and 250g icing sugar together in a bowl

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
  2. Grease a large baking sheet with butter and set aside.
  3. Sift the flour, baking soda and baking powder in a large mixing bowl.
  4. Mix the lemon juice, sugar, eggs, ricotta and butter.
  5. Mix the dry ingredients into a workable dough.
  6. Pinch apricot size balls of the dough and roll into balls, pack 3 cm apart on the baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes until golden brown.
  7. Remove and let cool slightly. Roll in the icing and cinnamon mixture.

 

 



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