Currant Butter Cookies
From the Victorian Christmas Dinner of the Manassas Gourmet Club. Makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies.
Ingredients
1 3/4
C
Flour
1
C
Sugar
2
C
Currants
2
Tbsp
Cream
1
Egg Yolk
1/2
Tbsp
Sherry
1/4
lb
Butter
, melted
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Lightly butter 2 cookie sheets and set them aside
In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar and currants
In another bowl, stir the cream, yolk, nutmeg and sherry together
Stir the melted butter and cream mixture into the flour mixture with a fork.
Knead the dough briefly with your hands
To shape cookies, pat about two tbsps of dough between your hands to form 2" oval discs about 1/4 " thick
Place the discs on cookie sheet. (The dough may seem awkward to shape because it contains so many currants.
Bake the cookies for 15 minutes and transfer them to a rack to cool. Store them in an airtight container.