Grandma's Yule Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: 6 cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups butter
1 packet dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water
6 egg yolks
1 cup sour cream
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Directions:Mix flour sugar salt and butter until crumbly and set aside..
Dissolve 1 packet of dry yeast in ¼ cup warm water and add 6 egg yolks (no whites) and 1 cup of sour cream
Add in flour mixture and knead dough until smooth. Grandma always made four separate balls of dough. Not sure if this is critical to recipe or not. Refrigerate balls of dough overnight, wrapped in plastic wrap.
The next day roll balls of dough in sugar and roll out onto floured surface. Cut the dough in squares that can be filled (see below) and folded to make a cookie.
Use Baker’s Filling for cookies – any flavor will do but Grandma favored mincemeat and apricot. Place spoon of filling in center of square and fold over each side to seal in filling. Pinch sides of cookies to make sure that filling doesn’t leak out during baking.
Bake cookies at 350 degrees for about 20-25 minutes until golden brown. |
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Notes: Every December my grandmother would arrive at our house for an extended stay. While there she would bake cookies – lots and lots of cookies. The same recipes were used year after year. None of these recipes were ever written down. The recipe that follows is my favorite of the bunch. My grandmother swore that the recipe came from her mother who got it from her mother – well, you get the idea. I’ve done my best to recreate it here in hopes that it will continue to delight new generations of holiday cookie lovers.
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