7 medium eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 box Crisco (melted)
3 cups flour
Juice of 2 lemons
7 teaspoons magic baking powder

1 egg white for brushing
A touch of regular table sugar to sprinkle on cookie batter

Preheat oven to 350 degree F.



Beat the egg white (will be used to brush the batter later).

Mix eggs, sugar, lemon juice, then add Crisco and flour.

Take a little dough and roll it. Cut dough into small portions.

Place the cookies on a greased cookie sheet (or one lined with a silicon baking mat), brush the tops of the cookies with egg white, and then sprinkle a bit of sugar on them.

Bake in a 350 degree F oven for 10 to 15 minutes.

The photo of this recipe was taken by Mary Melfi who herself cooked the cookies seen here. Possibly Teresa's lemon cookies (the contributor's late aunt) might have been smaller and thicker in appearance. Also, in Casacalenda these cookies were referred to as "pa'sticc'" which is a generic term in Molisani dialect for any type of cookie (from "pasticcio" (singular) and "pasticci" (plural)).

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