Christmas Stars

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound of sugar
• 1/2 pound of flour
• 1/4 pound of butter substitute
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoonsful of cold milk
• 1/4 of a candied cherry

Method

1. 1

   Sift together sugar and flour.

2. 2

   Mix butter substitute with sugar and flour.

3. 3

   Add cold milk and mix again.

4. 4

   Roll out dough thin and cut into star shapes.

5. 5

   Brush with egg white and press a candied cherry on each cookie.

6. 6

   Bake in a moderate oven till light brown.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The junior cook book (1920) by Clara Ingram Judson, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHRISTMAS STARS This is a very fine Christmas cookie. Sift together y> pound of sugar and V2 pound of flour. (Weigh these two materials if possible; if you have no scales use ly^ cups of sugar and 2 cups of flour.) Measure out i/4 pound of butter substitute and lay it on top of the sugar and flour. Open 1 egg. Drop the white on a small saucer and put the yellow on top of the butter substi- tute. Open a second egg and drop the whole egg on top of the butter substitute. (Be sure to save out the white of the first egg; then if the yellow breaks and you cannot successfully separate the white and yellow, you can use that whole egg and have another chance at getting a perfect white for later use.) With the tips of fingers mix together the flour, sugar and butter. If the hands are washed in cold water just before doing this the job can be neatly and quickly done. Add 2 tablespoonsful of cold milk and mix again. 129 CHRISTMAS STARS Divide the lump of dough into two parts. Drop one part onto a floured board. With a well floured rolling pin roll out very thin. Cut in star shapes with a cookie cutter. With a pancake turner or a spatula lift each cookie into a slightly greased cookie pan. When one pan is full of cookies, take a small paint bnish or a bit of clean cotton, dip in the unused white of egg, and brush over the top of each cookie. This will make the cookies look glazed when they have been baked. Press 1,4 of a candied cherry

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