Yield: 30 Cookies
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
1 cup | Butter; softened |
¼ cup | Powdered sugar |
1 \N | Egg yolk |
½ teaspoon | Soda |
2 tablespoons | Whiskey |
3 cups | All-purpose flour (to 3-1/2) |
\N \N | Whole cloves |
\N \N | Powdered sugar |
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy; add egg yolk. Combine soda and whiskey; add to creamed mixture. Add flour, 1 cup at a time; mix and knead by hand, adding enough flour to make a soft dough.
Shape as desired into crescents or oblong balls.
Insert a whole clove in center of each cookie. Bake on ungreased cookie wheets at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. Dust generously with powdered sugar while cookies are warm.
SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in the early 1970s. Typed for you by Nancy Coleman