Name: Mother's Filled Butter Rings (Christmas)
Ingredients: 1 c Butter; 1/2 c Sugar; 3 c Flour; 1/2 ts Salt; 1 ts Vanilla; Apricot preserves or other>> flavor of your choice.; Powdered Sugar

Recently I listened to a great sermon by Paul Tripp as he spoke about the need to shepherd our children’s hearts. When the heart is ignored and we concentrate only on the externals, he compared it to a child that has everything he needs and wants in his backyard, but has his face pressed up against the fence desiring the junk in the neighbor’s yard. Legalistic parents just try to build higher fences. Christian parents shepherd the orientation of the heart.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Cookies, Holidays	1	Batch

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Butter
1/2	c	Sugar
3	c	Flour
1/2	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla
		Apricot preserves or other>> flavor of your choice.
		Powdered Sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

Cream butter and sugar until light.  Add flour and salt. Chill slightly
and roll 1/8" thick between wax paper sheets. Roll only a small amount of
dough at a time. Using a 2 1/2" cookie cutter, cut cookies. Cut center out
of half of cookies (I use my thimble to cut centers). Bake all cookies on
ungreased sheets at 400~ for 8-10 minutes or less, until very lightly
browned. Cool on wire racks. Spread whole cookies with preserves, piled
higher in center.  Top with cookie ring. Sprinkle with 4x sugar. Store in
tin box between layers of wax paper.
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