William Woys Weaver

Wafer Jumbles

1867

Preparation info
  • Yield: Approximately

    8 Dozen

    Cookies.
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets
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