Recipe - Moravian White Christmas Cookies

2 cup Butter
3 cup Sugar
5 Egg, well beaten
1 cup Cream
1 teaspoon Soda
*dissolved in:
One fourth cup Water, boiling
4 cup Flour

Cream butter and sugar together until well blended. Beat the eggs and add.
Stir in the dissolved soda. Sift the flour and add alternately with the
cream. Mix thoroughly. Dough must be stiff enough to roll add more flour
if needed. Chill for several hours. Roll out thin on floured board and cut
with fancy cookie cutters. Bake at 350F about 12 minutes. Source:
Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.

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