Meaono Pohaku (stone Cookies)

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 4 cups bread flour
• 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup turbinado sugar
• 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup evaporated milk
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees. line cookie sheet with baking parchment or grease lightly.
• 2 combine flour and cream of tartar.
• 3 cream shortening with sugar and salt until fluffy. add egg, milk, baking soda and vanilla. mix well. add flour and mix until well blended. pat dough into a large ball.
• 4 dust hands with flour. pinch off golf-ball-size pieces of dough. place on cookie sheet and flatten into slabs 3/8-inch thick. brush with more milk if a glossy top is desired. bake until brown and almost firm, about 25 minutes. check to be sure cookies don’t burn. cookies will harden as they cool. makes about 2 dozen.