Cookies

Georgetown Lime Cookies

  • 2 cups Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon Ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 3/4 cup Butter, softened
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 2 Lime zest finely grated
  • 3 tablespoons Lime juice, (fresh)
  • 1/3 cup Sugar mixed with
  • 1/4 teaspoon each Cinnamon and nutmeg

    • Preheat oven at 350°.

    In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon; set aside. In large bowl beat butter, sugar and lime zest untillight and fulffy. Gradually beat in lime juice., Stir in flour mixture 1/2 at atime, blending well after each addition.

    Place sugar-spice mixture in a small bowl. Roll rounded teapoons of dough into1 inch balls. Roll balls in sugar-spicemixute. Arrange 1 inch apart on greasedcookie sheet. Use decorative cookie stamp or bottom of a glass to flatten ballsslightly.

    Bake for 13 to 16 minutes or until deep golden brown on bottom. Cool on racks

    This recipe courtesy of the From My Kitchen Cookbook. 

    Contributed by Fred And Evy Nitchy of Coronado, CA. 

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