Butter, Sugar and Lots of Love

Tonight my grandma and sister made butter cookies. They used a recipe from my great great Aunt Lumpsy. (She got that nickname because she was sweet as a sugar lump.) She was a maid in Chicago in the 1940s, and used to cook for the rich families. She had a lot of recipes with special ingredients. Her secret in butter cookies was hard boiled egg yolks.

My grandma learned to bake the cookies from Aunt Lumpsy when she was a little girl. Then my mom remembered when my grandma baked them when she came home from school. Today, my grandma taught my sister and how how to make them, so we'd learn to make cookies from scratch.

Butter Cookie Recipe

They're called butter cookies because they have 2 sticks of butter--clogged arteries!

Blend:

2 sticks soft butter

1 cup of sugar

Add:

1 egg

2 hard boiled egg yolks put through a sieve

Add:

2 and 1/2 cups of flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

Mix well and chill in wax paper for at least an hour.

Make balls with a pinch in the middle; sprinkl with sparkles.

Bake at 325 on lightly greased cookie sheet for 15 to 20 minutes.

When they are ready take them out and start munching. They were so Good. I now know what my mom means.