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Serves
15-20 cookies
Creator Notes
My mother’s mother, Ruth Hendricks Schoenberger made these with my mother when she used to be a baby and my mother in turn made them with myself and my siblings. My grandmother used to be a power to be reckoned with in her baking talents (her mother used to be a legendary baker in her time I am told), pondering nothing of whipping up pie crusts, yeast rolls, and these sugar cookies on a day after day foundation for nearly 7 a protracted time. She married gradual for abet then (in 1936 on the age of 26) as she awaited my grandfather (in Cincinnati, OH) who traveled spherical to loads of states to search out work all the device in which through the Depression. I win her telling me that she would talk over with him and continuously elevate something she baked along with her. I build no longer know if she introduced these however I’d need to think so. I take into accout her mixing these up and striking them in her icebox to relax then cutting and baking them before taking the put collectively to talk over along with her favored. Her true recipe calls for the cookies to be rolled out (she called them Christmas Cutouts on her recipe card) however I build no longer beget the counter/desk subject so icebox cookies seemed cherish a first fee advice to affiliate with my fantasy of her baking them in that formulation. Her recipe additionally calls for cake flour (which I did no longer beget) so I made my beget combining 3/4 c. white whole wheat flour with 2 tblsp. cornstarch to equal 1 c. cake flour (I doubled it to beget sufficient for these cookies. You might per chance also rep this on http://joyofbaking.com). —testkitchenette
Substances
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1/4 cup
butter, softened
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1/2 cup
sugar
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1
egg
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1 1/2 teaspoons
milk/cream
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1/2 teaspoon
vanilla
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zest of 1/2 lemon
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1 1/4 cups
cake flour or white whole wheat flour and cornstarch combination described above.
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1 teaspoon
baking powder
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1/4 teaspoon
salt
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350F and put collectively baking sheet with parchment paper/silicone liner.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and diagram aside. Combine the egg, milk or cream, vanilla, and lemon zest in a minute bowl and diagram aside.
- The negate of a handheld mixer or factual one, cream the butter and add the sugar gradually. Add the egg, milk/cream, vanilla, and lemon combination. Add the flour combination and mix totally. Create into a walk browsing parchment paper.
- Relax overnight. Nick with knife or dental floss (no wax or mint please) into scant 1/2″ slices. Bake 8-10 minutes. Frigid while it’s probably you’ll maybe also wait that lengthy to taste them.