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Rock Cookies

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, easy, recipes for cookies, recipes using baking powder, recipes using butter, recipes using cherry, recipes using egg, recipes using granulated sugar, recipes using lemon zest, recipes using wheat flour, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ARock_Cookies)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ARock%20Cookies&oldid=4515323

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 4 cups flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ¾ cup butter
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ pound dried currants
  • ¼ tsp mace
  • Zest of half a lemon
  • 3 eggs, well beaten
  • Candied cherries

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder; rub in butter. Add sugar, currants, mace, and lemon zest. Stir in eggs.
  3. Form into rough balls about 1 inch in diameter. If balls aren't holding together well, sprinkle with water. Garnish with ⅛ of a candied cherry.
  4. Bake for 9 minutes at 350°F. Cool.