Ingredients:
450 g flour
15 g yeast
2 eggs
7 egg yolks

115 g sugar
115 g butter
115 g animal fat
2 tbsp orange blossom water
Orange rind
3 tbsp cofoundation of anise (tsp grain anise boiled in six tbsp water)
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg to glaze
1/8 lt water
1 tbsp flour
140 g sugar to dust
Procedure:
Disolve the yeast in 8 spoonfuls of warm water and add the flour necessary to make a pastry.
Form a ball and leave in a warm place until the volume double.
Mix the rest of the flour with the salt and the sugar.
Add beaten eggs, the yolks, the water of orange blossom, the cofoundation of anise, the grated rind of orange, the butter and the animal fat.
Knead well and when it's smooth add the mass already fermented.
Knead everything and strike.
Grease of fat the mass and place it in a casserole.
Cover with a linen cloth and leave it in a warm place for 6 12 hours (until double the size).
Knead briefly and make balls again of the size that is wanted, and placed them in a greasing tin.
Decorate with pieces of mass in bones and tears forms and stuck them with an egg.
Cook in a hot furnace and shortly before removing it from the furnace to glaze them with egg yolk.
Bake a little more.
Remove from the furnace and let cool.
Dust with sugar.
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