#931 - Welsh Cookies

(by Donna Unger - friend)

4 cups flour
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup butter (OR 1/2 cup Parkay margarine and 1/2 cup lard)
1 cup currants
2 eggs (beaten)
1/3 cup milk

In a bowl add flour, white sugar, baking powder, salt, nutmeg--stir. Add the butter (or the margarine/lard) into the dry ingredients--mix using your hands (or a pastry blender) until it makes crumbs. Add the currants to a collander--rinse with very hot water. Add the washed currants to a separate bowl--add milk and beaten eggs to the currants--stir. Add currant mixture to the crumb mixture--mix well. If dough is too sticky add a little extra flour. Roll some of the dough onto a floured countertop--flour the top of the dough. Roll it out to 1/4" thick. Use a 2" circular cookie cutter to cut the cookies (or the top of a jar). Spray a frying pan with Pam--turn heat to medium. Fry the cookies until browned on the bottom, then flip and fry the opposite sides. When you remove them from the frying pan sprinkle them with powdered sugar or white sugar.