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Recipe: Nutmeg Logs with Butter Rum Frosting (cookies, Woman's Day magazine, 1976)

Desserts - Cookies, Brownies, Bars
NUTMEG LOGS

2 2/3 cups flour
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg (plus more for sprinkling on top)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
Butter Rum Frosting (recipe follows)

Stir together flour, 1 teaspoon nutmeg and the salt; set aside.

Cream butter; gradually add sugar, creaming well until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Stir in flour mixture; mix well.

On lightly floured surface shape with hands by rolling pieces of dough in long ropes 1/2 inch in diameter. Cut ropes in 8-inch lengths. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake in preheated 350 degree F oven 12 to 15 minutes or until light brown on bottom. Remove to racks to cool.

Spread with Frosting; mark with tines of fork to resemble bark. Sprinkle with nutmeg.

BUTTER RUM FROSTING

2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
2 to 8 tablespoons light rum

Cream butter. Beat in confectioners' sugar and enough rum for creamy spreading consistency.

Makes about 66 cookies
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Source: Recipe insert: Holiday Cookies and Candies, The Collector's Cookbook #239, Woman's Day magazine, December 1976
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