LET’S COOK LITHUANIAN
\nwith Dana Silidnas<\/p>\n
DELICIOUS CHRISTMAS COOKIES<\/strong> 2 eggs \u201cAusikes are usually translated as \u2018little ears \u2019 in Lithuanian cookbooks, but in my family, they are always “earcakes. \u201d This traditional Lithuanian dessert is often prepared for Christmas. \u201d GINGERBREAD ORNAMENTS<\/strong> 1 cup butter or margarine Cream butter and brown sugar. Add molasses and egg. Beat until smooth. Sift together flour, pumpkin pie spice and baking soda; add to mixture. Beat until well mixed. Cover and chill 2 hours. Preheat oven to 350\u00b0. Divide dough in half. Roll dough, half at a time, to a lA inch thickness. Cut out dough with assorted 3 to 5 inch cookie cutters. Make hole for hanging with toothpick near top of each cookie. Bake cookies on greased baking sheets 9 to 11 minutes or until edges darken slightly. Cool for 5 minutes then remove to wire racks to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough. Re-roll scraps as necessary. Decorate cookies with icing and Christmas candies as desired.<\/p>\n LEMON SNOWBALLS<\/strong> 1\/2 cup butter, softened Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add lemon rind, lemon extract and ginger. At low speed of electric mixer beat in flour. Stir in nuts. Shape dough into balls the size of small walnuts. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 325\u00b0 for 15 to 17 minutes until cookies just begin to brown. While cookies are still warm, roll in confectioners\u2019 sugar.<\/p>\n CREAM CHEESE COOKIES<\/strong> 1 stick butter, softened Cream butter and cream cheese together. Blend in egg yolk and vanilla. Add dry cake mix V3 at a time. Cover and chill at least 30 minutes. Heat oven to 375\u00b0. Drop on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 6 to 8 minutes. Cookies will be just slightly brown on edges. Do not overbake.<\/p>\n PINEAPPLE-OATMEAL COOKIES<\/strong> 20 oz. can crushed pineapple in syrup or juice Drain pineapple well, reserve 1\/2 cup syrup. Beat sugar and margarine until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, pineapple and reserved 1\/2 cup syrup. Combine remaining ingredients; blend into pineapple mixture. Drop by heaping tablespoonful onto greased cookie sheets. Shape with back of spoon. Bake at 350\u00b0 for 20 to 25 minutes until golden. Cool on wire racks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LET’S COOK LITHUANIAN with Dana Silidnas DELICIOUS CHRISTMAS COOKIES EARCAKES Ausikes 2 eggs 1\/2 cup sugar 5 Tbsp. milk and 1 tsp. rum extract or 5 Tbsp. rum 3 cups flour Cream eggs and sugar. Add milk and rum extract or rum. Add in flour. Mix together to form stiff dough. Roll out dough to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[78,137],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-food-cooking","tag-lith-heritage","tag-siliunas-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEARCAKES Ausikes<\/p>\n
\n1\/2 cup sugar
\n5 Tbsp. milk and 1 tsp. rum extract or 5 Tbsp. rum
\n3 cups flour
\nCream eggs and sugar. Add milk and rum extract or rum. Add in flour. Mix together to form stiff dough. Roll out dough to V2 inch thickness. Cut dough into diamonds, approximately 1 inch by 4 inches. Cut a slit in the center of diamond. Put one end of diamond through slit (dough will be curved). Fry dough in hot oil until light brown. Let cool on paper towels. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Earcakes stay crispy if kept in a closed paper bag.<\/p>\n
\nSubmitted by Kathy Hazlewood Overland Park, Kansas
\n(They\u2019re… Hie!… Good. \u2014 Dana).<\/p>\n
\nImbieriniai papuo\u0161alai<\/p>\n
\n1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
\n1 cup molasses
\n1 egg
\n5 cups flour
\n1 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice
\n1 tsp. baking soda
\nAssorted decorating icing
\nAssorted Christmas candies<\/p>\n
\nCitrinines sniego gniu\u017edes<\/p>\n
\n1\/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
\n1 Tbsp. grated lemon rind
\n1\/4 tsp. lemon extract
\n1\/8 tsp. ginger
\n1 cup unsifted all-purpose flour
\n1 cup chopped pecans
\nConfectioners’ sugar<\/p>\n
\nSurio sausainiai<\/p>\n
\n8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
\n1 egg yolk
\n1\/4 tsp. vanilla
\n1 pkg. yellow or devil\u2019s food cake mix<\/p>\n
\nAnanasiniai-avi\u017einiai sausainiai<\/p>\n
\n1 1\/2 cup brown sugar, packed
\n1 cup margarine
\n1 egg
\n3 cups rolled oats
\n2 cups flour
\n1 tsp. baking powder
\n1\/2 tsp. salt
\n1 tsp. ground cinnamon
\n1 cup raisins
\n1 cup chopped almonds, toasted<\/p>\n