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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Rest Africa >> Nigerian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 380 deg F/180 deg Celsius. | 2. Grease cookie tins. | 3. (** The story of the fat: we can always buy raw pork or mutton fat from a butcher or supermarket butchery dept. To render, cut this fat into small cubes, put (in batches) in a heavy-bottomed pot, and leave over low heat for the fat to "melt out". Pour off the fat at frequent intervals into a container, to prevent the fat browning in the pot. Do this before you start baking, and save the fat in the fridge in a closed container). | 4. In a large container mix very well: the flour, brown sugar, baking soda, cream of tartar, salt and all the spices. | 5. Rub in the butter and Crisco or fat with your fingers and palms until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. | 6. Whisk the eggs, add just 1/2 cup sweet wine to the eggs, then stir into the dry mixture. | 7. Stir this in well, and if still too dry to form a dough, add more of the sweet wine to form a fairly stiff dough. | 8. The dough is easy to handle and can be kneaded at this stage to mix well and to form a dough you can roll out. | 9. Roll out thinly, in batches, on a floured surface. Keep gathering up the unused dough, press together, and roll out again. | 10. Make sure your oven grid is in the centre of the oven, as cookies burn easily on the bottom, especially if you use dark tins. | 11. Press out large round cookies, carefully place on the greased tins, and bake in batches in the preheated oven. | 12. Check cookies after 5 minutes; don't let them burn. Cooking time depends on your oven and size of cookies, but is generally about 7 minutes. | 13. Remove with an egg-lifter, and let them cool and harden on wire racks. Store in airtight tins. | 14. The amount given below is a guess: any smaller and you will get up to 130 cookies or more. The cooking time is based roughly on the several batches you will have to cook. | 15. Can be made weeks before using. | 16. Although I give an approximately number of cookies, it will depend on your cookie cutter. A smaller cookie cutter will yield up to 130 or more cookies. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
cake flour	5	cups		2479.7	534.5055	56.17	5.891
brown sugar	2	cups		1672.0	431.596	0.528	0.0
baking soda	1	teaspoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
cream tartar	1/2	teaspoon		3.87	0.9225	0.0	0.0
clove	1	teaspoon	ground	5.754	1.3761	0.1254	0.273
cinnamon	1	tablespoon	ground	-	-	-	-
nutmeg	1	teaspoon	ground	11.55	1.0844	0.1285	0.7988
salt	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
butter	1/4			21.375	0.9821	0.6679	1.8
pork must	1/4	lb	rendered fat	100.8669	0.0	22.4401	0.5667
madeira wine	1/2	cup		100.8669	0.0	22.4401	0.5667
egg	2			143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51

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