Description
These have been in the family forever. They last forever – they mellow like fine wine. You must have a special iron to bake them over a gas burner. It’s like two hinged plates and it usually has a pretty pattern that is pressed into the cookies as they bake one by one.
Ingredients
- 5 pounds all-purpose flour
- 4 ½ cups brown sugar
- 12 eggs
- 2 cups butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons whiskey
Instructions
- Beat butter and sugar together. Add eggs
- one at a time
- beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla
- salt
- and whiskey.
- Add flour in small batches and mix by hand after each addition.
- Cover and refrigerate dough overnight.
- Lightly grease and heat the cookie iron over a gas burner set to medium heat. Roll about 1 tablespoon of dough into a small cigar-like shape. Place dough on the preheated iron and press together. Cook until golden
- about 30 seconds per side. Remove cookie from the iron and let cool.
Servings: 60