Pat Nixon's White House Cookies
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
1-cup sugar
2 cups butter room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ tablespoon lemon rind grated
2 eggs
6 cups cake flour
Recipe
Cream together sugar and butter in an electric mixer. When fluffy, add vanilla and lemon rind. Blend well. Add eggs, one at a time; mix well. Remove from mixer. Add cake flour; blend with a heavy mixing spoon. Chill dough in refrigerator 1 hour or overnight. Roll dough to 1/8" thickness and cut out with cookie cutters. Bake in preheated 375~ oven until brown, about 7-8 minutes.
NOTE: If colored granulated sugar is used for decoration, prepare an egg wash (1 well beaten egg with 1 tablespoon milk) and brush over the cut-out dough. Sprinkle with sugar and bake. Makes 10 dozen cookies
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