Name: Twelfth Night Wafers
Yield: Yield: Approximately 12 Dozen 2-inch Cookies.
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3¾ cups confectioners’ sugar; 2 tablespoons whiskey; Almonds or raisins for garnish (optional); 1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter; 6½ cups pastry flour; Yolks of 9 hard-boiled eggs; Grated zest of 1 lemon

Preparation info

Yield: Approximately
12 Dozen
Cookies.

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Christmas Cook

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

About

This is the recipe of Hattie King Taylor of Bristol, Tennessee, a region known more for its poverty than for recipes as rich as this one. I would describe these very decadent cookies as a cross between Italian pasta frolla and a sand tart.

Ingredients

1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter
3¾ cups confectioners’ sugar

Method

The butter must be very cold. Chop it into pea-size bits and put into a large sieve. Set over a bowl. Add the sugar and 5 cups of flour, and rub to form a soft, sticky crumb. Grate the egg yolks and work them into the crumb with the grated lemon. Add the whiskey and work the dough with your fingers unt

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Twelfth Night Wafers

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