Tortitas de santa clara ( candy )

Ingredients:

½ cup water

¼ milk

1/8 teaspoon baking soda 750 grams.

500g flour.

500g sugar.

pumpkin seed 380g.

lard 125 grams powdered sugar

3 egg yolks

Sheets of brown paper.

Directions:

Baking and icing sugar will dissolve in water in a bowl, add butter and beat until creamy take,

2 Add flour and knead with your hands until a dough, take some of this dough and place on a sheet of paper, a second piece of paper will cover floured dough over to bring the product to an inch thick.

3 Remove the first sheet of paper and cut a circle of 6 cm mold. in diameter and place them in cans of oven lined paper, give the edge to the pancakes by placing a strip of dough around the entire circumference and decorate branded fork after this step will leave to stand for 24 hours then you put them a preheated oven at 200 ° C for 15 minutes, once cooked they only let cool.

Preparation of Filling:

1 Soak the seed from the previous day in half cup of water and mix, the next day you remove the green skin on a metate or stone, you re-wash and let dry to grind after power

2. Sugar will be cooked in half a cup of water, then join with the ground seed, boiled and cooled after leaving you add a little milk

3 Once the dough cold and ready just pour over the filling to form cookies.