Bon Appetit!

Some of the Tuesday morning crowd at Tesoros gets ready for the presentation by the physical therapy students.

After a lot of encouragement, Jenny, one of the Tesoros staff, takes a mighty swing!

Here are some of the boys making cookies! Timo, the one grating the lime, speaks English very well, and I work with him on reading and telling time. 

Here Dona Patricia helps the kids roll out the dough for their cookies. Yummy!

Doña Patricia's Sugar Cookies

Makes 24 cookies

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 eggs

3/4 cups of oil

1 cup sugar

Zest of one lime

2 teaspoons of baking powder

1 tablespoon vanilla

1/4 tablespoon of salt

Raisins

Process:

Preheat the oven to 400 deg. F

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt.

In a separate bowl, beat the eggs. Add the oil, eggs, lime zest, and vanilla to the dry ingredients and mix well. Then add sugar and eggs.

Add more flour as necessary for a doughy consistency (we had to add up to a cup of flour).

Knead the dough so that it sticks together for rolling.

Roll out the dough to 1/2 thick and use cookie-cutters to cut out cookies.

Put on a greased cookie sheet and a raisin to the center of each.

Cook for 15-20 min, til the bottoms begin to brown. (Cook time will largely depend on how thick your cookies are, so watch them closely!)