Featured Cookbook

ORDER/INFO

1. Pumpkin-Date Loaf with Cream Cheese Swirl

2. Big Lemon Frosted Sugar Cookie Squares

3. Lemon Sponge Cloud

4. Lindy's Cheesecake

Book Description

Greg Patent, recognizing that many of America's worthiest breads, cakes, and other sweets have disappeared over time, retrieves them in perfected, easy-to-follow form, while also providing a selection of contemporary favorites, in his book Baking in America. From the first American cookbook, American Cookery, published in 1776, to and beyond the works of influential American cookbook writers including Eliza Leslie, Amelia Simmons, and Fannie Farmer, the book serves up such temptations

... (more)

Baking in America: Traditional and Contemporary Favorites from the Past 200 Years

Authors: Greg Patent

Date: November 2002

ISBN: 0618048316

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Hardcover

ORDER/INFO

These huge, crisp old-fashioned sugar cookies are enriched with a little wheat germ. They're easy to make and a great favorite with both kids and adults.

Makes 20 cookies

• DOUGH

• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon baking powder, preferably non aluminum

• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 cup untoasted wheat germ

• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature

• 1 cup sugar

• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

• 1 large egg

• 1 large egg white

• 1 tablespoon milk

• Finely grated zest of 1 lemon

• GLAZE

• 1 large egg white

• 2 cups confectioners' sugar

• 2 - 3 teaspoons fresh lemon juice

• Colored sugar sprinkles for decoration (optional)

1. For the dough, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a bowl. Stir in the wheat germ; set aside.

2. In a large bowl, beat the butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Add the sugar and vanilla and beat for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the egg, egg white, milk, and lemon zest and beat in well. With a wooden spoon, gradually stir in the flour mixture to form a moist dough.

3. Scrape the dough onto a sheet of plastic wrap and pat it into a rectangle about 1 inch thick, using the plastic wrap to help you. Wrap tightly and refrigerate for at least several hours, or overnight.

4. Adjust two oven racks to divide the oven into thirds and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

5. Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface into a 12-x-15-inch rectangle, checking occasionally to make sure the dough isn't sticking. With a large sharp knife, cut the dough into twenty 3-inch squares. Carefully transfer the squares to two ungreased baking sheets, spacing them about 2 inches apart, 10 on each sheet.

6. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the cookies are deep golden brown and have cracks on top. Rotate the sheets from top to bottom and front to back about halfway during baking to ensure even browning. With a wide metal spatula, transfer the cookies to cooling racks to cool completely.

7. For the glaze, beat the egg white in a small bowl until foamy. Add the confectioners' sugar and 2 teaspoons of the lemon juice and beat until smooth. The icing should be just thick enough to spread over the cookies with a pastry brush. If it is too thick, gradually beat in droplets of lemon juice until the consistency is right. Brush a thin layer of icing over the cookies and sprinkle with the sugar sprinkles, if using. Let the icing set.

More From This Book:

1. Pumpkin-Date Loaf with Cream Cheese Swirl

2. Big Lemon Frosted Sugar Cookie Squares

3. Lemon Sponge Cloud

4. Lindy's Cheesecake

Home - Request a Recipe - Index - Women for Women International - Kiva.org - Hunger Relief - Organ Donation  

Copyright 1995 - 2008 The Kitchen Link, Inc. All Rights Reserved

http://www.recipelink.com - Privacy  - Contact