1991 2nd Place: Oma's Almond Cookies Recipe

• 2 c. Butter, softened
• 2 c. Sugar
• 2 x Large eggs
• 1 x Lemon, grated rind and juice
• 4 c. All-purpose flour
• 1 tsp Baking pwdr
• Healthy pinch salt
• 1/2 lb Unblanched almonds, finely
• Grnd or possibly grated
• Colored sugars for garnish,
• Optional

1. Preparation Time: 30 min
2. Chilling Time: 8 hrs or possibly overnight
3. Cooking Time: 10 min
4. 1.
5. Cream butter and sugar in large mixer bowl of electric mixer.
6. Beat in Large eggs, one at a time.
7. Beat in lemon rind and juice.
8. Mix flour, baking pwdr and salt.
9. Stir flour mix and grnd almonds into butter mix to make a soft dough.
10. Divide dough into quarters.
11. Chill dough, wrapped in wax paper, till hard, at least 8 hrs or possibly overnight.
12. 2.
13. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
14. Have ungreased baking sheets ready.
15. 3.
16. Roll out one dough portion on lightly floured pastry cloth with a rolling pin covered with stocking or possibly roll between sheets of lightly floured wax paper to 1/8 -inch thickness.
17. Cut out with cookie cutters.
18. Return dough to refrigerator if it gets too soft.
19. Transfer to baking sheets, leaving 2 inches between each cookie.
20. Sprinkle with colored sugar if you like.
21. 4.
22. Bake till very light brown at edges, 8 to 10 min.
23. Transfer to wire racks to cold.
24. Store in a covered tin.
25. This second-place winner, from Judy M. Drux of Dyer, Indiana, makes very thin, crisp, delicate cookies.
26. The dough keeps well in the refrigerator if well-wrapped.
27. This cookie was a tribute to her husband's grandmother, Antonia Drux, who emigrated to this country from Germany in 1923.
28. (Oma means "grandma" in German.)
29. The recipe has been passed down as just a list of ingredients.
30. Drux added a few hints to help make baking them easier for future cooks.

butter, sugar, eggs, lemon, allpurpose, baking pwdr, salt, unblanched almonds, colored sugars

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/1991-2nd-place-oma-s-almond-cookies-61415 (may not work)