Ingredients
For batter*
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup milk
1 cup sugar
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
3 tablespoons amonia baking powder [also known as "Ammonium carbonate"]
6 eggs
3 3/4 cups flour
For sprinkling
Table sugar
* Makes about 2 dozen cookies.
Directions
o Preheat oven to 350 F degrees.
o Beat eggs.
o Add sugar and beat till creamy.
o Add milk, oil. and grated lemon zest and beat some more.
o Mix amonia powder with the flour.
o Add the flour and amonia mixture with the sugar and egg mixture and beat some more.
o Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
o For each cookie spoon a tablespoon of batter onto the cookie sheet -- the space between the cookies has to be very wide as the cookies will expand in the oven (A regular cookie sheet will incorporate only 6 cookies, 3 on each side).
o Sprinkle the tops of the cookies with sugar.
o Bake till golden (about 15 minutes).
Notes
The contributor's mother, the late Angelica (nee Greco) Palazzo, often made these cookies for her family and were much loved..... Photo: Mary Melfi. | 
