Pat Nixon’s White House Cookies

Title: PAT NIXON'S WHITE HOUSE COOKIES

Categories: Cookies, Celebrity

Yield: 10 Dozen

-MARY WILSON BWVB02B

1 c Sugar

2 c Butter; at room temperature

1 ts Vanilla extract

1/2 tb Lemon rind; grated

2 Eggs

6 c -

7 cups cake flour

Cream together sugar and butter in an electric mixer. When fluffy, add

vanilla and lemon rind. Blend well. Add eggs, one at a time; mix well.

Remove from mixer. Add cake flour; blend with a heavy mixing spoon. Chill

1 hour or overnight. Roll dough to 1/8-inch thickness

and cut out with cookie cutters. Bake in preheated 375-degree oven until

brown, about 7-8 minutes.

Note: If colored granulated sugar is used for decoration, prepare an egg

1 well-beaten egg with

1 tbsp. milk

dough. Sprinkle with sugar and bake. Makes 10 dozen cookies. --