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| 1. Mix 1/2 cup sugar, salt, baking powder, flour and 1 cup butter or margarine and work in like a pie crust. Set aside. | 2. Beat 4 of the eggs with milk. Add 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice, and vanilla. | 3. Make a well with dry ingredients and add lemon mixture. Mix in Sambucca and the one egg. | 4. Make ropes with dough about 4 inches long and shape into whatever you like. I usually shape into spiral shape. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet Bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). | 5. Make a glaze with confectioners' sugar and flavor with the almond extract (or any other flavoring you like). Add enough milk to the confectioners' sugar to make a loose frosting. Try to frost the cookies when cool. Just dip tops into frosting and twist. Sprinkle colored candies, if you like them, while the cookies are still wet with frosting. | 6. You can also use this recipe to make filled cookies. For filled cookies you need to roll the dough into 12 x 4 inch oblong shapes and fill with filling. To Make Filling: Poach prunes with a little water. Remove from heat and add raisins, chopped walnuts, chopped candied cherries and 2 eggs. Mix well. Add a few drops of any flavoring you like, I like lemon. | 7. After the dough is stretched, place the filling in the middle , lengthwise and roll dough. Place on cookie sheet with seam on the bottom. | 8. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) until the crust is golden (about 20-30 min.) When cool you can frost the logs and let the frosting dry then slice on the bias. (My husband loves the ends of the logs.) ENJOY!! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
purpose flour	5 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
milk	1/2	cup		74.42	5.8316	3.843	3.9894
white sugar	1/2	cup		387.0	99.98	0.0	0.0
egg	5			357.5	1.8	31.4	23.775
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
vanilla extract	1/2	teaspoon		6.047999999999999	0.2656	0.0013	0.0013
baking powder	5	teaspoons		12.19	6.371	0.0	0.0
lemon juice	1/2	teaspoon		0.5592	0.1754	0.0089	0.0061
butter	1	cup		1368.0	62.856	42.744	115.2
anise liqueur	1 1/2	fluid ounces	flavored	-	-	-	-
confectioner sugar	1/2	cup		-	-	-	-
milk	1	tablespoon		74.42	5.8316	3.843	3.9894
almond extract	3	drops		-	-	-	-
prune	2 1/4	cups	pitted	552.825	146.36700000000002	4.5806	1.053
raisin	1 1/2	cups		747.45	196.812	8.3902	1.1385
walnut	1	cup	chopped	1927.12	0.0	0.0	218.0
cherry	1/2	cup	chopped candied	38.75	9.4395	0.775	0.2325
egg	2			357.5	1.8	31.4	23.775

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.