Shrewsbury Cakes

Submitted by mollypaul

"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

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg, well beaten
• 2 1⁄2 cups 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.