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Butter Cookies

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I distinctly remember my grandmother cultivating in me the habit of munching on cookies with milk on mornings and evenings when I was a child. It is one of the sweet moments that I would never ever wish to forget in my life.

I especially love the evening times as I would sit on the steps leading from the kitchen to the backyard with a cup of warm cow’s milk along with some very huge butter cookies breathing in the scents of all the flowers. It is a very unique scent that is very hard to fathom with all the scents vying for your attention.

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There will be jasmine blooms in the creepers leading to the terrace, spreading its scent shamelessly in all its glory, Andhi Malli, Neem flowers, flowers from the Drumstick tree surrounding our house, not to mention the blooms of the Avarakkai creepers with the bees buzzing over them.

I yearn for those lazy but memorable and totally enjoyable summer holidays. It sometimes saddens me that my own kids don’t get to enjoy such life’s simple pleasures often. Now coming to those memorable cookies……..

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Butter Cookies
You’ll need:

All Purpose Flour
1 cup
Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 cup
Butter
1/2 cup
Sugar
1/2 cup
Egg
1
Salt
2 pinch
Vanilla Essence
1 tsp

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Method:

Preheat the oven to 200 C (400 F). Grease an oven proof plate with butter and keep it ready. Sieve together the flours and salt.


In a large bowl, beat together the butter and white sugar until it turns creamy, light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then add the vanilla essence. Give it a stir. Now start adding the flour mixture little by little into the sugar mixture.


Mix it till a soft dough forms. It might be a bit sticky. Cover this dough in a butter paper and refrigerate for at least an hour.


Cut out the chilled dough with cookie cutters onto the greased plate.Bake for 12 to 15 mins in the preheated oven or till done. Remove from plate to cool on wire racks. Once cooled down completely, store in an airtight container and enjoy with your hot cup of tea or coffee.


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Notes:

I used my coffee decoction filter’s lid as a cutter to get big sized cookies.
You can skip wheat flour and use All purpose flour or vice versa.
If the dough is still sticky after chilled use some more flour for dusting while shaping them.

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  2. Kalpana Sareesh

    Radhika pack these to me.. even i remember my childhood days whr my grand ma gets me n makes me eat butter biscuits with cup of milk after my school.I love those days!!! I shd def try these biscuits soon..

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  6. Priya Sreeram

    Radhika I loved the way you described those happy summer days and I agree kids nowadays are indeed devoid of all those glorious past- anyways loved the butter cookies – nice!

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  20. soujanya

    hi radhika…
    cookies are looking absolutely delicious…my mom does the same recipe..ur cookies made remember my memories too…:)
    happy cooking!!

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  33. schmetterlingwords

    Hi Radhika, thank you for visiting my space and for your lovely comments. You have a colourful lovely space here. I like the way you described all those smells from those flowers. The butter cookies look awesome. I feel like I smell the flavour through my monitor…

    Glad to follow you too 🙂

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  34. ???

    Nice write-up and the cookies are perfect n crunchy! Felt like I’ve been to the backyard and breathed the scent of those flowers! 😉

    Reply

  43. Sweeya

    When baking cookies, i always have confusion deciding when the cookies are done. So, i sometimes end up with hard cookies.

    Do we have any toothpick insertion kind of test to find out if the cookies are done?

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    • Radhika

      Hi Sweeya, unfortunately that test wont work for cookies. I mostly go by my nose with the aroma or you can just turn off the oven 2 minutes earlier than the mentioned baking time and let the tray inside the oven itself for that time for it to set well without letting it become hard or getting burned.

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