Ground Pork Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 lb pork
1 lard
1 c sugar
1 c brown sugar
2 eggs
3 c flour
2 ts soda
1/2 ts cinnamon
1/2 c peanut butter
1/2 c nuts
1/2 c orange rind

Instructions

Brown ground pork; drain. Cream lard, white sugar, brown sugar and eggs. Add flour, soda, cinnamon. Blend in peanut butter, nuts and shredded orange rind. Stir in ground pork. Shape into small balls on greased cookie sheet. Press down with fork dipped in sugar. Bake at 350 for 10 min. Makes 5 doz. cookies. Keep refrigerated. FROM THE HEART OF IOWA COOKBOOK, Lisa Crawley/Cedar Rapids