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Lemon Cookies

Lemon cookies made by adding lemon juice and rind to plain cookie dough.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Lemon Cookies

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare your plain cookie dough as usual.

  2. Add the juice and grated rind of the two lemons to the dough and mix well until combined.

  3. Shape and bake according to your plain cookie recipe.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Lemons
Juice adds acidity and brightness, while grated rind adds aromatic lemon oil for flavour.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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