Herbal Lemon Cookies

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Title: Herbal Lemon Cookies
Categories: Companion, Cookies, Harned 1994, Herb/spice
Yield: 1 batch

1 c Butter
2 c Sugar; divided
2 Eggs
1 ts Vanilla extract
2 1/2 c Flour
2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
1/3 c Dried lemon herbs*
-- finely chopped

*1/3 cup total: Herbs such as lemon grass, lemon thyme or lemon basil.

Cream butter and 1 3/4 cups sugar. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.

Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and herbs. Add to creamed
mixture; mix.

Drop dough by teaspoonfuls, 3" apart, on a greased cookie sheet.
Flatten slightly with a fork or cup bottom. Sprinkle lightly with
the remaining sugar.

Bake at 350 F. for 8 to 10 minutes, or until barely browned. Cool
slightly, then remove to a rack.

Yield: 6 to 8 dozen cookies.

Recipe from Nancy Brewer/New Orleans, Louisiana. In "Kitchen Table:
Where Herbs and Spices Make a Difference" column in "The Herb
Companion." Dec. 1993/Jan. 1994, Vol. 6, No. 2. Pg. 84. Posted by
Cathy Harned.

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