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Butter Cookies

From The art of German cooking and baking, 1922

Serves 20

These cookies may be brushed with whites of eggs and dusted with sugar, cinnamon and almonds before they are baked.

Presented as published in 1922. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The art of German cooking and baking (1922) by Lina Wachtelborn Meier, page 153. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BUTTER COOKIES. 1 lb. of butter % lb. of sugar 1% lbs. of flour % lb. of blanched, ground 2 yolks of eggs almonds 1 tbsp. of arrack or brandy % cup of chopped citron

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