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Walter Elwell

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs	Indian	Cookies, Holiday	120	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Butter, softened
2	c	Sugar
2		Eggs
1		Lemon, grated rind and juice
4	c	All-purpose flour
1	ts	Baking powder
		Pinch salt
1/2	lb	Unblanched almonds, finely
		Ground or grated
		Colored sugars for garnish,
		Optional

INSTRUCTIONS

Preparation time: 30 minutes Chilling time: 8 hours or overnight Cooking
time: 10 minutes
1. Cream butter and sugar in large mixer bowl of electric mixer. Beat in
eggs, one at a time. Beat in lemon rind and juice. Mix flour, baking powder
and salt. Stir flour mixture and ground almonds into butter mixture to make
a soft dough. Divide dough into quarters. Refrigerate dough, wrapped in wax
paper, until firm, at least 8 hours or overnight.
2. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Have ungreased baking sheets ready.
3. Roll out one dough portion on lightly floured pastry cloth with a
rolling pin covered with stocking or roll between sheets of lightly floured
wax paper to 1/8 -inch thickness. Cut out with cookie cutters. Return dough
to refrigerator if it gets too soft. Transfer to baking sheets, leaving 2
inches between each cookie. Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired.
4. Bake until very light brown at edges, 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer to wire
racks to cool. Store in a covered tin.
This second-place winner, from Judy M. Drux of Dyer, Indiana, makes very
thin, crisp, delicate cookies. The dough keeps well in the refrigerator if
well-wrapped. This cookie was a tribute to her husband's grandmother,
Antonia Drux, who emigrated to this country from Germany in 1923. (Oma
means "grandma" in German.) The recipe has been passed down as just a list
of ingredients. Drux added a few hints to help make baking them easier for
future cooks. from the Chicago Tribune fourth annual Food Guide Holiday
Cookie Contest December 5, 1991
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #339
From: Linda Place <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:24:32 +0000

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