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 make a smooth stiff dough.

2. Pinch off enough dough to make a ball 1 inch in diameter, 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...

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[March 1994. 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.]

[Dec. 2018. Used my Kitchenaid stand mixer, no trouble getting the dough
to come together. I used my little purple scoop and cut them in half,
and got 72 cookies. I rolled them out, flattened them a bit and stuck
them into a bowl of blue sprinkles. 12 minutes seems to be about right.
"Pale brown" means the edges, not the tops of the cookies.]

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