Recipe - Feines Buttergebaeck (Fancy Butter Cookies)

Three fourths Lb* butter (probably 1 2/3
cups)
190 g Sugar (1 cup less 3 Tbsp)
1 Egg (or 2)
1 Lb* flour (probably 4 1/2
cups less 1 Tbsp)
Grated peel of 1 lemon
Salt
Glaze:
1 Egg

Dough:

Sift flour onto pastry board, add all other ingredients and knead well.
Chill dough in a cool place. Roll out to approx. Three fourths inch thick (or
slightly thicker), and cut out [with a cookie cutter]. Paint with glaze.

((*Note: The German original used the '#' for pound. Some of the recipes
from this source were in German, some in a mixture of German and English.
Since this particular recipe was all in German, I assume it refers to
German pounds. A german pound 500 grams is slightly larger than the
American pound 454 grams. K.B.))

Source: Handwritten German recipe obtained by Pat Stockett
Translation/Conversion: Karin Brewer

Posted by: Karin Brewer, Cooking Echo, 8/92

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