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Pat Nixon's White House Cookies

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serves/makes:
  
ready in:
  1-2 hrs

ingredients

1 cup sugar
2 cups butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 tablespoon lemon rind grated
2 eggs
6 cups cake flour

directions

Cream together sugar and butter in an electric mixer. When fluffy, add vanilla and lemon rind. Blend well. Add eggs, one at a time; mix well. Remove from mixer. Add cake flour; blend with a heavy mixing spoon. Chill dough in refrigerator 1 hour or overnight.

Roll dough to 1/8" thickness and cut out with cookie cutters. Bake in preheated 375 degrees F oven until brown, about 7-8 minutes.

cook's notes

If colored granulated sugar is used for decoration, prepare an egg wash (1 well beaten egg with 1 tbls milk) and brush over the cutout dough. Sprinkle with sugar and bake.

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Adelle, Louisiana, USA


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