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Grandmother's Jam Filled Lard Cookies

Grandmother’s Jam Filled Lard Cookies are low sugar perfect vintage afternoon snack our grandmother used to make. You may fill them with any of your favourite jam!

Course Dessert
Cuisine European
Keyword Grandmother's Jam Filled Lard Cookies
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 13 minutes
Total Time 28 minutes
Servings 32 cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 Tbsp fresh cake yeast
  • 1 Tbsp milk
  • 1 Tbsp sugar
  • 3 ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ cup lard
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 Tbsp milk
  • 16 Tbsp jam
  • 6 Tbsp icing sugar

Instructions

  1. In a mug, combine cake yeast, 1 Tbsp milk and 1 Tbsp sugar. Leave aside for 10 mins.

  2. On a clean flat working surface, knead, using your hands, flour, lard, eggs, milk and yeast mixture.

  3. When you get nice smooth dough, half it and leave to rise for 15 minutes.

  4. Preheat the oven to 180 C / 356 F.

  5. Cover sheet pan with parchment paper and leave aside.

  6. Roll the first dough to get 12 x 12 inches square and cut to 16 equal squares. Doing that, you get 3 - inch squares.

  7. Place ½ Tbsp jam in the center of each square. Overlap opposite corners of squares, pressing the dough together.

  8. Transfer filled cookies on parchment paper and bake for 13 minutes.

  9. Put powdered sugar in a shallow bowl.

  10. Once filled cookies are done, remove them from the parchemnt paper and roll them in icing sugar while still hot.

  11. Place the cookies on the plate to serve.