Amaretto Cookies

In 1998 my husband, Mike and myself had gone to the First Greco Family Picnic (they have it every 5 years).  Over the next few months, Diane Randesi (one of the children of the Greco clan) had put together a cookbook that everyone who attended the picnic (about 100 people or more) contributed to the cookbook.

Amaretto Cookies Recipe by Julia Greco/The Greco Family “Cook”Book

Amaretto Cookies

4 eggs

2 cups sugar

1 cup Crisco

1 cup orange juice

4 tsp. almond extract

6 hearing tsp. baking powder

5 cups flour

Powdered sugar

In large bowl, beat eggs, sugar and Crisco.  Add juice, almond extract, baking powder and flour.  Mix.  Roll each teaspoonful into a ball and roll in powdered sugar.  Place on greased cookie sheet.  Let stand on cookie sheet a few minutes before baking.

Bake 350 F. for 10 – 15 minutes.

Finished cookie will be light in color.

(Recipe for the Amaretto Cookies was in the Greco Family “Cook”Book, Julia Greco (age 100/2012), 1998.)

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