Description
These cakes are a cross between shortbread and sugar cookies. They are brown on the outside and pure white on the inside. This recipe comes from "the little house cookbook" by barbara m walker, and the cakes were part of laura and mary's christmas stockings in "little house on the prairie."
Ingredients
- White Flour
- Granulated Sugar
- Baking Soda
- Ground Nutmeg
- Lard
- Cultured Buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees f
- In a mixing bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking soda, and nutmeg
- With cold fingers, rub the cold lard into the dry ingredients
- Make a well in the center, add buttermilk, and work with one hand into a dough that can be rolled out
- Dust rolling surface with flour
- Shape the dough into a ball and roll it out into an 8 inch circle
- With a table knife dipped in flour, cut the circle in half, then the halves in thirds, to produce six equal wedges
- Shape each wedge into a heart
- Grease baking sheet and place hearts on it so they do not touch
- Bake for 15 minutes, until cakes are puffy and nicely browned
- Remove from oven and sprinkle tops immediately with sugar
- When cool, wrap with blue tissue paper, the traditional wrapping of white sugar crystals, for gift giving