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      Title: SPECULACI (SUGAR COOKIES) {OVERNIGHT}
 Categories: German, Cookie
      Yield: 1 Recipe
 
  4 1/2 c  Flour
  2 1/4 c  Sugar
    1/2 lb Butter (NOT margarine)
      3    Eggs
      1 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Cinnamon (optional)
 
  Cream butter and sugar.  Add beaten eggs.  Mix well.  Then add flour
  and baking powder.  Chill for an hour or so.  Roll out on flour and
  sugar board and cut with cookie cutters.  Let stand overnight.  Next
  day place colored sugar on cookies or plain sugar or none at all.
  Bake at 350ø. Be sure not to brown too fast.
  
  NOTE: Another way to use this dough: Cut into diamond shapes. Let
  stand overnight.  Next morning beat stiff 1 egg white and brush on
  each diamond. Then add finely chopped nuts.
 
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