ITALIAN CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Sweet Pie

Ingredients

Crust:	Filling:
3 Cups Flour -- Use more, if necessary	2 1/2 pounds Ricotta cheese
1/4 cup sugar	1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick margarine	1 1/2 cups sugar
1 stick butter	10 whole eggs
1/4 cup milk	2 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 cup rum	1 whole lemon rind
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 whole eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Crust - Prepare two 8-inch pans for crust by sprinkling dry farina cereal, corn meal or grits on the bottom of each pan.

Prepare crust: Cut flour and dry ingredients with butter and margarine. Add liquid ingredients. Knead dough slightly. Cut dough into 4 parts. Roll out 2 parts for bottom crust. Set aside remaining 2 parts.

For filling, beat together remaining ingredients, beginning with Ricotta Cheese until smooth. Pour into pastry lined pans, equal amounts of filling.

Roll out each remaining parts of the dough and cut into 1/2 inch strips or use lattice cutter. Lattice dough strips on top of each filling.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake 55 to 60 minutes - until golden brown on top and filling is firm.

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