Munn Cookie - Ciglen Family Recipe

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Munn Cookies

--Jackie’s recipe from Nana Bebe
with commentary from Tracey

1 cup white sugar

2/3 cup white Crisco

1 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

2 eggs - room temperature

1/3 cup poppy seeds

3 cups flour

1 tsp lemon zest

2 tsp lemon juice

1 tbsp orange zest

1/4 cup orange juice

1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 400.

Cream sugar, Crisco, eggs - really well-be patient.  You can try doing it with half-butter or using solid coconut oil but results will be different with each technique/choice.

Add vanilla.

Alternate adding flour with juice blending well in between.

Stir in zests and poppy seeds.

Roll dough into long pieces then break off tiny bits and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Or use whatever method suits you to get your little blobs onto the cookie sheet.

Squash with flat bottomed glass wrapped in saran - will need to regularly dip in flour. They should be about 1/8th inch thick.

Bake one tray at a time on middle rack – for 7-10 minutes. They should be just browning when you pull them out. How big your blob of dough is will determine how big the cookies are, don't over bake.

Recipe makes at least 4 baking sheets of cookies so you can freeze some for later.