Grandma’s Biscochos Cookies

Ingredients

3 eggs

⅓ cup oil

¾ cup sugar

3 cups flour—or more

3 teaspoons baking powder

Step 1

Combine flour and baking powder.

Step 2

Beat the eggs in a separate bowl.  Add sugar and oil.  Add the flour, baking powder mixture.  Beat with a mixer, then by hand until dough is smooth and a little dry, all in one piece.  Add flour as necessary.

Step 3

Allow dough to rest for 10 minutes.

Step 4

Form cookies by rolling coils of dough and shaping them into:  pretzels, braids, circles. 

Step 5

Beat one more egg and glaze the cookies with it.  (You can thin the beaten egg with some water.)  Dip the glazed side of the cookie into sesame seeds (if desired).

Step 6

Bake at 350° for 15 – 20 minutes.

Step 7

Remove from baking pan.

Judy Notes

Needs a little more sugar; add lemon juice as well as lemon zest. Maybe a little less baking powder.