Recipe 29- Buttery Holiday Story Cookies

                                           BUTTERY HOLIDAY STORY COOKIES

1 C butter, softened
1 C firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon lemon rind
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 C unsifted all-purpose flour
1/4 C milk

In large bowl cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Beat in egg, lemon rind, lemon extracts. Stir in dry ingredients alternatively with milk. Chill 1 hour. on lightly floured surface, roll 1/4 inch thick. Place lightly floured plastic pattern with sharp knife. Place on baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 to 18 minutes. Cool. Decorate.

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As a child, my mother and I would bake butter cookies at Christmas time and then decorate them.  I found this recipe inside a folder of recipes kept by my mother in her kitchen at 9 Janes Lane, Lloyd Harbor, New York.

My mother in law Ellen Grady Welch  flew in from Syracuse, New York to spend Christmas 2013 with us in California. Lindsey, Caroline, and their Grandmother baked these butter cookies.  The cookies looked great but everybody thought that they tasted too lemony.  If I were to bake the cookies again, I would reduce the lemon rind and lemon extract and add vanilla.