All this cookie-baking got me to thinking about some cookies my grandparents on my father's side used to make back in the day. They were very thin butter cookies, with brown edges. These grandparents passed away in the late-1980s, so I haven't had these cookies, much less thought about them, in about 20 years.
So I did some hunting around on the intertubes to see if I could find out what they were. They are apparently called Swedish Butter Cookies or Brown Edge Wafers. Currently I've got more cookies than I can shake a stick at, but once they're finished I think this will be my next recipe to try.
Swedish Butter Cookies
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs, beaten
2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, mix butter and sugar until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla. Add flour and salt; mix well. Drop from teaspoon (1/2) on greased cookie sheet. Bake 12-15 minutes. In theory, makes 60 cookies.
And then maybe after that I'll try my hand at making my grandmother's famous butterkuchen. Ye gods, so much butter.
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1 comments:
Alas, the Swedish Butter Cookies did not turn out as well as expected. I made them larger than indicated in the recipe, so they got a little burnt. Recipe makes about 40 large cookies.
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