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"Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite."--Ruth Reichl

Thin Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
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1 lb butter
1 lb brown sugar (light)
5 eggs (save 3 whites)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
5 cups flour
Directions:
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar well. Add eggs, cream again. Add flour 1 cup at a time
Put dough in refrigerator overnight.
Before starting to bake make about 21 balls of dough. Keep cold at all times
Take one ball out at a time. Beat the 3 egg whites until they are broken up
Brush the dough then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture. Cut into size you want. Put nut in center of each cookie
Lift cookie with a pancake turner to cookie sheet.
Bake 400 F about 6-8 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet immediately
When rolling cookies use 1/2 flour and 1/2 10x sugar

 

 

 

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