Herbal lemon cookies
1 batch
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
1 | cup | Butter |
2 | cups | Sugar; divided |
2 | Eggs | |
1 | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
2½ | cup | Flour |
2 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
⅓ | cup | Dried lemon herbs* finely chopped |
Directions
*⅓ cup total: Herbs such as lemon grass, lemon thyme or lemon basil.
Cream butter and 1¾ cups sugar. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and herbs. Add to creamed mixture; mix.
Drop dough by teaspoonfuls, 3" apart, on a greased cookie sheet.
Flatten slightly with a fork or cup bottom. Sprinkle lightly with the remaining sugar.
Bake at 350 F. for 8 to 10 minutes, or until barely browned. Cool slightly, then remove to a rack.
Yield: 6 to 8 dozen cookies.
Recipe from Nancy Brewer/New Orleans, Louisiana. In "Kitchen Table: Where Herbs and Spices Make a Difference" column in "The Herb Companion." Dec. 1993/Jan. 1994, Vol. 6, No. 2. Pg. 84. Posted by Cathy Harned.
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