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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (softened)
- 12 cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 12 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 12 teaspoon lemon extract
- 12 teaspoon lemon rind (grated)
- 2 12 cups flour
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 23 cup raspberry preserves (or flavor of choice, may use jam)
- 12 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
Method
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a bowl, cream together butter & sugar till well-blended.
- Add egg yolk, vanilla, lemon extract & lemon rind.
- Mix well.
- In a 2nd bowl, combine flour & salt.
- Gradually add flour mixture to sugar-butter mixture & blend well.
- Shape dough into 3/4-in diameter ropes along the length of the baking sheets.
- W/your finger, press a long groove into the middle of ea rope, being careful not to press all the way down to the baking sheet.
- Bake 10 minutes.
- Remove cookies from the oven & spoon preserves (or jam) in a thin line down the centers of the grooves.
- Return to oven & bake 7-10 more minutes, till firm & light golden in color.
- Combine confectioners sugar & milk; drizzle sugar mixture over hot cookies.
- Immediately cut cookies at a 45 degree angle in 1-in lengths.
- Let cool on baking sheets & then transfer to cooling racks.
