Lemon Cookies Iv
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
84 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons grated fresh lemon rind
- 4 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- colored crystal sugar (optional)
directions
- Cream together the butter and cream cheese.
- Gradually add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg.
- Stir in the lemon rind and juice.
- Sift together the flour and baking powder.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture.
- Shape the dough into a smooth ball, wrap it in wax paper and chill for at least 3 hours, or overnight.
- Lightly grease baking sheets.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- The dough will be quite hard when it comes out of the refrigerator.
- Cut it into quarters and roll each quarter between pieces of wax paper until very thin.
- Cut with a cookie cutter and sprinkle with coloured sugar, if desired.
- Bake for about 8 minutes, or until the cookies start to become golden around the edges.
- Cool on racks and store in an air-tight container.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Scandigirl
Canada
<p>I'm Danish-Canadian! I immigrated to Canada in 1968 and lived in B.C. until 1979, then we had the wonderful opportunity to live in Hawaii for almost 3 years. We moved to Southern Ontario in 1982. Of profession, I'm a Doctor of Human Biochemistry, specializing in Nutrition, a Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine, and a Registered Nutrition Consultant Practitioner, I have my own full time practice. <br />My passion is cooking! I have tested and tried over 10.000 recipes over the last 30 years on my beloved husband who is now residing in a Long Term Facility with Dementia, so I have to make meals for one, healthy and simple. />My pet peeve is too much garlic in a creamy rich sauce. <br />My favourite cookbook is the one I have made myself over the past 40 years. <br />My interests are knitting Scandinavian socks, sweaters, reading. If I had a month off I would visit our adult children and 4 year old Granddaughter, who resides in British Columbia and Florida, and cook them their favorite meals.</p>