Shrewsbury Cakes Recipes

SHREWSBURY CAKES

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This cookie is somewhat like a tender, sweet cracker. From the New England chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947.

Provided by Molly53

Categories Dessert

Time 27m

Yield 24 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 7

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg, well beaten
2 1/2 cups flour, sifted
citron, shredded (for garnish)

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350F and grease cookie sheets.
Cream butter and sugar; add vanilla, salt and egg and blend well.
Add flour.
Chill.
Roll out 1/8" thick and cut with a cookie cutter.
Place on prepared cookie sheet and tuck a single piece of shredded citron in the center of each cookie.
Bake for about 12 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 100.7, Fat 4.2, SaturatedFat 2.5, Cholesterol 19, Sodium 54.6, Carbohydrate 14.1, Fiber 0.3, Sugar 4.2, Protein 1.6

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