Butter Cookies

Serves: 4

Gideon Batz

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

29

Spice

53

Sweetness

52

Sourness

41

mins

Prep time (avg)

3.3

Difficulty

Ingredients:

1 pinch

Salt

Directions:

1

Cool on a cookie rack

2

Delicious served with strawberries simply macerated in sugar

3

Combine 8 tablespoons of the butter, egg yolk, sugar, pinch of salt and flour

4

When ingredients are completely blended, divide the dough in half

5

Roll each dough half into a cylinder, about 1 1/2 inches in diameter and 6 inches long

6

Wrap each cylinder in wax paper and then in foil

7

Refrigerate until hard or for at least 2 hours

8

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees

9

Grease 2 cookie sheets with remaining tablespoon of butter

10

Remove dough from fridge and slice each cylinder crosswise into 1/4-inch rounds

11

Place the rounds on the prepared cookie sheets, but don't crowd them as they spread during baking

12

Brush the tops with reserved egg white

13

Center some sliced almonds on each cookie and bake for 12 to 14 minutes or until the edges begin to brown