Cookies with bacon fat

[likethebeer]

I took the plunge this evening & made sugar cookies using bacon fat. This is the recipe I got from RecipeSource.com:

Title: Sugar Cookies
Categories: Polkadot, Faylen, Cookies
Yield: 1 Servings 3 cookie sheets for me, so I actually DID make 3 dozen cookies with a recipe!
3 c Flour
1 1/2 c Sugar
2 ts Baking powder
1 pn Salt
1 c Butter
2 lg Eggs, beaten
1 ts Vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift dry ingredients together. Work butter into the dry mixture with a pastry cutter until it becomes coarse grains. Add eggs and vanilla and mix until blended. You can use an electric mixer at this point, but it’s better if done by hand.

Roll out dough to about 1/8 inch thick and cut with cookie cutter. I didn't do that - just used the size of a teaspoon. Space cookies 2 inches apart on baking sheets. Bake 8-10 minutes and cool on racks. Cool completely before frosting.

These are the Christmas cookies that my family’s sworn by for three generations. You can fool around with them by adding different extracts - I've done well with mint extract and almond extract. I'm guessing the next time I'll be making Christmas cookies will be when I see my niece & nephew which means no bacon fat (my middle sister's a vegetarian; and E won't have it sitting around).

Recipe By: Beth Shoot

Instead of 1 cup butter, I used 1/2 cup butter & 1/2 cup bacon fat. Since this went well, I might do the whole thing next time (although the bacon fat did make it richer).

And I didn't use a sifter or a pastry cutter to mix all of the ingredients together: I just used a fork, muscle, and time (which I had).

Comments

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I'm proud of you.

Thanks

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I'm proud of me, too. :-)

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Those sound interesting! :)

I've made chocolate chip cookies with candied bacon before, turned out excellent.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I hear using candied bacon is really good. I like that I used what I've gotten from bacon drippings!

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

When I made the cookies there was one recipe online for them, lol, now there seems to be dozens!

The cookies you made sound good. :) But I have to admit, I love bacon!