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Spritz Cookies (Spsritėzgeback) Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup butter, softened, (do NOT use margarine)
½ cup sugar
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour, (do NOT use self-rising)
1 teas almond extract or vanilla
½ teas salt
1 large egg
Few drops red or green food color if desired.
Directions:
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

2) Mix butter and sugar in large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients.

3)Place dough in cookie press. Form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet (do NOT use a non-stick pan or parchment paper, an insulated sheet pan is best).

4)Bake 6 to 9 minutes or until set but not brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
~The cookie press, also known as a cookie gun, is used to make decorative cookies. Disks are put in the bottom of the press to make a variety of different shaped cookies.
~The name Spritz comes from the German word spritzen, meaning "to squirt" because the soft dough is squirted or pushed through the press; a popular Christmas convection in Germany, called Spsritėzgeback.
~My favorite disk during the Holidays, was the Christmas tree, we would tint the dough with green food coloring and decorate with sprinkles; my other favorite was the flower shape, which at Easter I would tint yellow or pink.
~Cookie presses have changed through the years, the press my mother used was aluminum, narrow and had a crank handle and didn't hold a lot of dough, the press I used for many years held more dough, so you didn't have to refill as often, and had a knob to turn, rather than a crank. In the 70-80's the electric cookie press came into being, easier to use and producing a more consistent cookie.

This recipe comes from a 1940's Gold Medal Flour bag.

 

 

 

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