Cookie Press Cookies

This recipe came with my mother's cookie press; I've just adapted it to whole wheat flour

Sheets lightly greased         Oven 375 degrees C      Time 10-12 minutes

1/2 C butter
1 C  sugar

2 eggs
1 T milk
1 t vanilla

Mill:*
  375 g soft wheat
 
1/4 t powder
1/4 t salt
1/2 t nutmeg   

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Beat in the eggs, milk and vanilla until smooth and light.  

Whisk flour, powder and salt together, then stir into wet, just until mixed.  

Press shapes close together (they won't spread much) onto lightly greased sheets.  Bake 10-12 minutes until barely golden at the edges.

Optional:  For a drier, more shortbread-ish cookie:
Skip the milk;
Use 20% rice flour (1/2 C or 75g);
Lower the sugar to 1/2 C brown sugar.

Bake longer at lower temp (325) until barely golden

Makes 10 dozen small cookies @ 25 calories:
     38    % fat        63% carbos          4 % protein

*substitute 2 1/2 C unbleached or whole wheat pastry flour


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