Recipe - Biscochos (Very Special Cookies)

4 Eggs
1 cup Sugar
One half cup Vegetable oil
4 One half cup Flour
4 teaspoon Baking powder
1 cup Sesame seed

Beat eggs with a fork (reserve 4 tblsp. for later use). Add sugar, beating
well, then oil. Beat well. Add flour and the baking powder, a little at a
time, until it forms a smooth dough.

Cut 2 One half inch circles of pastry, One fourth inch thick, and shape with fingers to
form a cup shaped base or basket for large end of hard boiled egg. Roll
strips One fourth inch thick abd cut two strips long enough to cross over the top
of the egg and attach to the base. Decorate the top of arch with a little
extra pastry to depict something of the Purim story or an animal or flower.
Use your imagination.

Add 1 tsp. sugar to the reserved egg, brush on the pastry and sprinkle with
sesame seed.

Arrange all the pastry trimmed eggs on a cookie sheet and bake at 350oF
approximately 20 minutes or until just barely golden.

Posted to JEWISHFOOD digest by wajnberg wajnberg@ccard.com.br on Feb 19,
1998