Name: Butterscotch Rolled Cookies
Ingredients: 1 c Brown sugar; 1/2 ts Salt; 1/2 c Butter, softened; 1 Egg; 1/2 ts Vanilla; 1 3/4 c Flour, sifted; 1/2 ts Baking powder; 1/4 ts Baking soda; 1/4 ts Cinnamon; 1 1/2 c Confectioner's sugar; 1 Egg white, slightly beaten; 1 tb Butter, melted; 1/8 ts Salt; 1/2 ts Vanilla; Food coloring (optional)

Jesus Christ demands self-denial, that is, self-negation (Matt. 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23), as a necessary condition of discipleship. Self-denial is a summons to submit to the authority of God as Father and of Jesus as Lord and to declare lifelong war on one's instinctive egoism. What is to be negated is not personal self or one's existence as a rational and responsible human being. Jesus does not plan to turn us into zombies, nor does he ask us to volunteer for a robot role. The required denial is of carnal self, the egocentric, self-deifying urge with which we were born and which dominates us so ruinously in our natural state. Jesus links self-denial with cross-bearing. Cross-bearing is far more than enduring this or that hardship. Carrying one's cross in Jesus' day, as we learn from the story of Jesus' own crucifixion, was required of those whom society had condemned, whose rights were forfeit, and who were now being led out to their execution. The cross they carried was the instrument of death. Jesus represents discipleship as a matter of following him, and following him as based on taking up one's cross in self-negation. Carnal self would never consent to cast us in such a role. "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die," wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was right: Accepting death to everything that carnal self wants to possess is what Christ's summons to self-denial was all about.

J.I. Packer

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Cookies, Christmas, Usenet	3	Dozen

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Brown sugar
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Butter, softened
1		Egg
1/2	ts	Vanilla
1 3/4	c	Flour, sifted
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1/4	ts	Baking soda
1/4	ts	Cinnamon
1 1/2	c	Confectioner's sugar
1		Egg white, slightly beaten
1	tb	Butter, melted
1/8	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Vanilla
		Food coloring (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS

COOKIES
GLAZE
Mix sugar, salt and butter thoroughly.  Add egg and vanilla and beat till
fluffy.
Sift flour, baking powder, soda and cinnamon and add to mixture. Chill
well, several hours, or overnight.
MAKE THE GLAZE:  Mix the glaze ingredients together until smooth.
Roll the dough out until it is about 1/8 inch thick. Cut into fancy shapes
and bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees F. Let
cool and glaze.
  NOTES:
*  Rolled cookies for the Christmas holidays -- I almost never make these
cookies except at Christmas time. They just seem to be Christmas cookies.
(I did make a batch of heart shaped ones last Valentine's day for my
then-fiance.)  I usually make these cookies in Christmas shapes and frost
them with green and red frosting. This is a good recipe for kids to help
out with.
*  It helps to keep most of the dough in the refrigerator while you are
cutting shapes.  It cuts much better when it is cold.
*  These are time-consuming and fairly difficult, but worth it.
: Difficulty:  moderate.
: Time:  30 minutes preparation, overnight chill, 1 hour cutting and
baking.
: Precision:  measure the ingredients.
: Katherine Rives Albitz
: Purdue University, Computer Science Dept.
: rives@purdue.edu
: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust
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