Keith Young

Swedish Butter Cookies

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    200

    cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      25 min

Appears in
Cooking with the Firehouse Chef: The Food that Fuels New York’s Bravest
Cooking with the Firehouse Chef

By Keith Young

Published 2005

  • About

This is another recipe from George Feil. It dates back to the 1920s, when a friend of the Feil family married a girl from Sweden. It may seem like a lot of cookies, but they’re very small and great to give as gifts at holiday time.

Ingredients

  • 6 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (George preferred Gold Medal)
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 pound

Method

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, thoroughly combine the flour, eggs, butter, sugar, vanilla, and baking powder.

You can use a cookie press to extrude the dough onto a large cutting board or counter and then cut into 2- to 2½-inch pieces. Transfer