Recipe - Holiday Spice Cookies

One half cup Butter or margarine
1 cup Light brown sugar*
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
One half teaspoon Lemon extract
One half teaspoon Anise extract
2 Three fourths cup Sifted flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Black pepper
One fourth teaspoon Nutmeg
One fourth teaspoon Cloves
1/8 teaspoon Mace
Confectioners sugar

* firmly packed

Just the smell of these cookies baking is enough to get you in the holiday
spirit.

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter with brown sugar. Beat eggs and
extracts. In another bowl, add sifted flour and mix baking powder, salt,
pepper and spices. Gradually add flour butter mixture, mixing well after
each addition. Chill 2 hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 375ø. Shape dough with two teaspoons into ovals and place
on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 810 minutes. Carefully remove cookies
from baking sheets to wire racks and sprinkle with confectioners sugar.
Cool and store in airtight containers. These cookies keep well and mellow
with age. They're their best about 58 days after baking.

Yield: about 5 dozen. Martina Boudreau, St. Louis, MO

Randy Shearer

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