Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
cream cheese sugar cookies
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup white sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1 [3 ounce size] package cream cheese, softened
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg yolk [reserve the egg white
2 and 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions:
1) In a large bowl combine the sugar, butter, cream cheese, salt, almond extract, vanilla extract, and egg yolk --- blendin' thoroughly.
2) Stir in the flour and mix 'til well blended.
3) Chill the dough overnight.
4) Preheat oven to 375�.
5) On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough [one third at a time]
to 1/8 inch thickness, refrigeratin' the remainin' dough 'til
you're ready to cut it.
6) Cut into desired shapes with lightly floured cookie cutters.
7) Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
8) Brush the cookies with slightly beaten egg white
and sprinkle with coloured sugar.
9) Bake for 7 to 10 minutes, 'til light and golden brown.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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