Name: Wafer Jumbles
Yield: Yield: Approximately 8 Dozen Cookies.
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Grated zest of 1 lemon; 4 eggs; 1 teaspoon lemon extract; 1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter; 4¼ cups all-purpose flour; confectioners’ sugar (see note); 2 cups superfine sugar

Preparation info

Yield: Approximately
8 Dozen
Cookies.

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Christmas Cook

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

About

Another name for Wafer Jumbles was Paper Jumbles, which should give you some idea how thin they ought to be. This recipe comes from the manuscript cookbook of Carrie Ayres Lockwood of Norwalk, Connecticut.

Ingredients

1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter
2 cups superfine sugar

Method

Cream the butter and sugar. Beat the eggs to a froth and combine with the sugar mixture. Add the lemon zest and extract. Gradually sift in the flour and work this into a soft dough. Cover and ripen in the refrigerator 2 to 3 hours. The dough must be kept very cold or it will become difficult to work with.

Preheat the oven to