Apees

This wine- and caraway-flavored butter cookie is a good example of how something from a kitchen of the past can be well worth rediscovering.

The cookie’s name is the initials “A.P.” spelled out, short for Anne Parmer, notes food historian William Woys Weaver; this is an American cookie.

The recipe has been adapted almost unchanged from Eliza Leslie’s Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, a