Blue Ribbon Winning Lemon Tea Cookies
1995 Winner
Any Cookies Made with Sour Cream
Tammy Drury
Shepherdsville, KY
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon shredded lemon peel
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 & 3/4 cup sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon soda
- Lemon Glaze (recipe below)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg and lemon peel. Sift together dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating after each addition. Drop from teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Or to roll and cut, chill dough, then roll and cut into shapes (if dough is sticky, work in a little flour). Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes. Remove at once from sheet; brush with lemon glaze. Yield 3 to 4 dozen.
Lemon Glaze
3/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup lemon juice
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