Recipe - Butter Cookies

1 kg Flour [!!]
750 g Butter
330 g Powdered sugar

Divide the dough into two halves. Make the 'German Slices' and
'Chessboards' from the one half. Add two eggs to the other half to make
the other types. Let the dough sit in a cool place for a few hours.

'German Slices': With One fourth of the basic dough above: roll into 'sausages'
about 4 One half cm in diameter. Cut into slices One half cm thick. Bake on a
greased cookie sheet.

'Chessboards': with One fourth of the basic dough above: Divide the dough into
two. Mix 2 tbsp cocoa into one half. Roll out two brown and two white
'sausages'. Put them together in a square, so that they alternate like
squares on a chessboard. Cut into thin slices. Bake.

The ones with the egg can be put into a pastry bag and squeezed through a
starshaped nozzle to make wreaths or short sticks. Two sticks can be put
together with jam or chocolate glaze for filling.

Another variation is this: Jam cookies: Roll the dough out very thinly, 23
mm. Cut out circles about 6 cm in diameter. Put a little raspberry jam in
the middle of each circle. Fold in half and seal the edges with the tines
of a fork. Bake all types: 175C for 10 min.

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