Title: Candy cane cookies #2
 Categories: Cookie
      Yield: 36 Servings
 
      1 c  Shortening (or margarine)
      1 c  Sifted confectioners sugar
      1    Egg
  1 1/2 ts Almond extract
      1 ts Vanilla
  2 1/2 c  Gold medal wondra flour
           -(cake flour)
      1 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Red food coloring
           Granulated sugar
 
  From: "Mary f (Pud)" 
  
  Date: 19 Dec 1995 18:22:13 -0700 My Aunt made these and they are one
  of my favorite Christmas cookies.  They are delicate in flavor and
  usually a real winner.
  
  Preheat oven to 375F.  Mix first 5 ingredients together.  Sift flour
  and salt together.  Stir 1/2 of flour mixture into shortening
  mixture.  Work remaining flour into mixture with hands until the
  dough holds together. Divide dough in half.  Mix 1/2 of dough with
  red food coloring.  Pinch off a bit of white dough and roll into a
  long cigarette, pinch off a bit of red dough and roll into a long
  cigarette.  Twist white and red dough together, place on cookie sheet
  and bend into a candy cane shape.  Bake 9 minutes. Remove from oven
  and dust with granulated sugar.  The first time you make them watch
  the time as your cookies might be larger or smaller than mine :-).
  
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  From rec.food.cooking archives.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe