Do
you save little slips of paper like this one?
Tucked
inside a book...
Memories
of sitting around the kitchen table after school...
If
I picked all the kids up, G. always had something hot out of the
oven. A good friend. A good deal!!
Now,
look again. G. only ever wrote the ingredients! If you insisted,
she'd write down the oven temperature. I'd always have to scribble
my own little notes on the side.
These
little guys are super easy – a very old-style cookie, probably from
G.'s mother. They'd be simple to make with kids.
G.'s
Refrigerator Cookies
1
cup butter, softened
1/2
cup icing sugar
2
cups flour
2
tablespoons cornstarch
Mix
all at once in the mixer (about 4 minutes).
Gather
dough and divide into four balls.
Roll
each ball into a snake shape.
Wrap
tightly in plastic wrap, parchment paper or wax paper.
Refrigerate.
Slice
and bake at 300 degrees C for 12 minutes.
Makes about 4 dozen small cookies.
Recipe can be easily halved.
Chocolate
cookies: Melt and mix
2 squares of unsweetened
chocolate
into dough.
Want
something a little fancier? Whisk a small
drizzle of maraschino juice into a heaping tablespoon of icing sugar.
Spread a little on each cookie and add sprinkles.
Or,
instead of slicing your cookies, take a teaspoon of dough, roll into
a ball and flatten into a disk. Press one side firmly into rainbow sprinkles.
Bake as described above.
