Name: Lemon Poppy-Seed Shortbread Bars
Ingredients: 1 Stick unsalted butter; softened; 1/2 c Confectioners' sugar plus additional for sprinkling the bars; 1 1/2 tb Grated lemon zest; 3/4 ts Vanilla; 1 1/2 tb Poppy seeds; 1 c All purpose flour; 1/2 ts Salt

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Cooking liv, Import	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Stick unsalted butter; softened
1/2	c	Confectioners' sugar plus additional for sprinkling the bars
1 1/2	tb	Grated lemon zest
3/4	ts	Vanilla
1 1/2	tb	Poppy seeds
1	c	All purpose flour
1/2	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

In a bowl with an electric mixer cream the butter with 1/2 cup of the
confectioners' sugar and beat the mixture until it is light and fluffy.
Beat in the zest and the vanilla, add the poppy seeds, the flour, and the
salt, and beat the mixture until it is just combined. Press the mixture
evenly into a buttered 8-inch square baking pan and bake it in the middle
of a preheated 300 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until it is pale
golden. Let the shortbread cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes, cut it
into 24 bars, and let the bars cool completely in the pan. Sprinkle the
bars with the additional confectioners' sugar.
Yield: 24 cookies
Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8971
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #810 by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
<jfreeman@netusa1.net> on Sep 26, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.”

And who and what are ministers themselves? Frail men, fallible, sinning men, exposed to every snare, to temptation in every form; and from the very post of observation they occupy, the fairer mark for the fiery darts of the foe. They are no mean victims the great Adversary is seeking, when he would wound and cripple Christ’s ministers. One such victim is worth more to the kingdom of darkness than a score of common men; and on this very account, the temptations are probably more subtle and severe than those encountered by ordinary Christians. If this subtle Deceiver fails to destroy them, he artfully aims at neutralizing their influence by quenching the fervor of their piety, lulling them into negligence, and doing all in his power to render their work irksome. How perilous the condition of that minister then, whose heart is not encouraged, whose hands are not strengthened, and who is not upheld by the prayers of his people! It is not in his own closet and on his own knees alone that he finds security and comfort and ennobling, humbling and purifying thoughts and joys; but it is when his people also seek them in his behalf that he becomes a better and happier man and a more useful minister of the everlasting gospel.

Gardiner Spring