Shrewsbury Cakes

Submitted by Molly53

"This cookie is somewhat like a tender, sweet cracker. From the New England chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947."

 

• Ready In: 27mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 24 cookies

ingredients

• 118.29 ml butter
• 118.29 ml sugar
• 2.46 ml vanilla
• 1.23 ml salt
• 1 egg, well beaten
• 591.47 ml flour, sifted
• citron, shredded (for garnish)

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F and grease cookie sheets.
2. Cream butter and sugar; add vanilla, salt and egg and blend well.
3. Add flour.
4. Chill.
5. Roll out 1/8" thick and cut with a cookie cutter.
6. Place on prepared cookie sheet and tuck a single piece of shredded citron in the center of each cookie.
7. Bake for about 12 minutes.