• 4 sticks margarine
• 2 cups Crisco
• 10 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup warm milk
• 1 Tbsp. sugar
• 1 Tbsp. pure vanilla extract
• 2 pkg. active dry yeast
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 2 LB. confectioners sugar

Cut margarine and Crisco into flour until mixture is as fine as cornmeal. Combine milk, sugar and vanilla extract. Stir in yeast until dissolved.

Add yeast liquid to flour mixture. Beat in eggs. Add more flour if necessary. Knead slightly. Let rise until double in bulk (about one hour).

Cover area of board with confectioners sugar. Break off small pieces of dough. Roll in sugar and shape in fiqure-eights or crescents.

Place on greased baking sheets. Bake at 375º for 15 minutes

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