RECIPE: Butter Cookies - 375 F

1 cup butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 egg yolks*
1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon extract
2 2/3 cup flour

1. Preheat oven to 375 F.  Cream butter; slowly add sugar, beating well.
beat in egg yolks, one at a time.  Stir in vanilla or lemon extract and
flour, beating slowly with a wooden spoon to maike a smooth stiff dough.

2. Pinch off enough dough to make a ball 1 iunch in diamete, rolling
dough in the plamns of your hands.  Place 2 inches apart onto ungreased
cookie sheet.  Flatten each ball to desired thickness by pressing crosswise
with lightly floured fork.

3. Bake for 10 minutes or until pale brown.  Remove from cookie sheet while
warm and cool on rack.  At holiday times you could top with colored
sprinkles.

Makes 24 cookies

*Left-over egg whites can be frozen...

[Cookiemania, by Jeri Dry and Alix Engel, pg. 83; ISBN 0-8092-4551-5,
Library of Congress cat 88-17517; 1988, Contemporary Books Inc.;
180 North Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 60601; also Beaverbooks
Ltd., 195 Allstate Parkway, Valleywood Business Park, Markham, Ontario
L3R 4T8 Canada.  Cookiemania is [r] Cookiemania Inc., 3231 West 37th
Place, Chicago IL 60632, from where they ship cookies everywhere.]

[Like with the Almond Butter Cookies, I had trouble with crumbly dough.
This time the mixture was too dry to make a dough.  I added 2 TBLS milk
(one at a time) until it clumped up right.  Incidentally this is another
recipe Maria (9) cooked with only a little bit of help on the milk/dough
bit I just mentioned.]

[And my oven appears to be miscalibrated.  If I raise the knob 25-50
degrees the cookies work out more or less.]

March 1994

Hazel Boston-Baden, P.O. Box 17522, Anaheim CA 92817.
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