Recipes like these from The Shaker Cook Book most resemble Amish cooking: Â simple, classic recipes made from the basic building blocks of baking: Â sugar, flour, water,sour cream,etc.Enjoy these!
Shaker Sour Cream Cookies
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Serves: 3 dozen
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs beaten
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3 /4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 /4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 3 cups flour
Instructions
- Cream sugar and beaten eggs and add cream.
- Mix dry ingredients and add to egg mixture.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto buttered and floured cookie sheet.
- Bake in 400 degree oven until edges are golden.
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Shaker Sugar Cookies
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Serves: 3 dozen
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- ½ teaspoon lemon peel, grated
- 1 /4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 3 /4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 1 /2 cups flour
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Save ½ egg white for brushing cookies.
- Slightly beat the remaining eggs and add to butter mixture.
- Add grated lemon peel and nutmeg.
- Sift cream of tartar with flour and work into butter mixture.
- Form into ball, cover and chill an hour.
- Roll out to 1 /2 inch thickness and cut with large round cookie cutter.
- Brush with egg white and sprinkle generously with sugar.
- Bake at 400 for 10 mins.
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