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1 c. flour
1 egg, well beaten
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spread the sesame\seed on a cookie sheet and toast for 3 to 4 minutes. Cream butter; add brown sugar and beaten egg. Add flour, salt and vanilla. Fold in cooked benne seed. Drop by 1/2 teaspoon on aluminum foil-lined, ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 325 degrees approximately 7 minutes. Allow to cool 1 minute and remove from foil. Yield: 7 dozen.
Miss Dodson recommends buying seed from a Health Food Store. Call Mountainside Market. Also, Better Thymes in Front Royal usually has the seed in bulk. In grocery stores, the seed is found in the spice and herb section, but is very expensive to buy this way.
Miss Dodson also shared some information on the origin of Benne seed wafers.
Benne (African origin) - There are many recipes for this cookie. A few recipes use margarine; most don’t. The size of the cookie is another difference. Size ranges from 1 •teaspoon of dough to a coffee spoon. Smaller amount say bake on foil, larger amounts say greased cookie sheet. The Charleston area used Benne seeds in several ways — candy, cocktail bits, etc. It is thought that the slaves brought the seeds with them. It is considered good luck to have benne-sesame plants in your garden.
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