{"id":3418,"date":"2017-01-21T08:48:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2022-08-07T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:32:35","slug":"butterscotch-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/butterscotch-cookies.html","title":{"rendered":"Butterscotch Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Always on the Christmas cookie plate. \u00a0A &#8220;Take a pound of butter cooking school&#8221; recipe. \u00a0ALWAYS use real butter!!! Save the egg whites (in the freezer) for meringue\u00a0cookies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 lb butter<\/li>\n<li>1 c light brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c white sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 egg yolks<\/li>\n<li>4 c flour<\/li>\n<li>7 dozen pecan halves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven 350\u00b0.<\/li>\n<li>Cream butter and sugars.<\/li>\n<li>Add egg yolks.<\/li>\n<li>Add flour.<\/li>\n<li>Mix thoroughly.<\/li>\n<li>Take a small (about 1 oz) piece of dough and roll into a ball in the hand. (I use a 1 oz scoop.)<\/li>\n<li>Place on lightly greased cookie sheet.<\/li>\n<li>Then pat down with a fork.<\/li>\n<li>Top with a pecan half.<\/li>\n<li>Do it again and again until all the dough is gone.<\/li>\n<li>Bake 350\u00b0 for 15 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves: \u00a0<\/strong>Makes 7 dozen cookies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: \u00a0<\/strong>Anna Ortlund, Margie&#8217;s great-grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>Revised 9\/2022 when I found the recipe in Winnifred&#8217;s (Margie&#8217;s grandmother) handwriting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always on the Christmas cookie plate. \u00a0A &#8220;Take a pound of butter cooking school&#8221; recipe. \u00a0ALWAYS use real butter!!! Save the egg whites (in the freezer) for meringue\u00a0cookies. Ingredients: 1 lb butter 1 c light brown sugar 1\/4 c white sugar 2 egg yolks 4 c flour 7 dozen pecan halves Directions: Preheat oven 350\u00b0. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/butterscotch-cookies.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Butterscotch Cookies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweets-cookies","tag-gk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9212,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/9212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}