Grandma Metro's White Italian Cookies

Ingredients [metric]

• 4 cup flour
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup lard (we use crisco)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup whole milk
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 3 whole eggs
• 3 egg yolks
• Either:
• chopped walnuts
• grated coconut

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Sift dry ingredients together, cut crisco into flour mixture (mixture should be crumbly). Make a well in the flour mixture and add the eggs, vanilla and milk. Mix by hand mixture will be sticky, put a little flour in your hands and roll into balls or open figure eight twists. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Frost with a simple white frosting (color for the holidays) while frosting is wet dip cookin in chopped walnuts or coconut.

Recipe yeilds about 3 dozen cookies depending on how big you roll the ball or make the twist.