holiday cookie #3
these are the much-vaunted citrus slices. mom first made these, oh, about a century ago, and i've loved them ever since. the recipe comes from the december 1983 issue of good housekeeping, if that's any kind of clue.
i made an innovation of my own this year: i rolled the "rind" in colored sugar. another alteration i made was to this instruction from the recipe:
Into half of dough, knead orange extract, grated orange peel and enough yellow and red food color to tint a pretty orange color.
i, uh, added approximately three times as much red and yellow food coloring as i should have. the orange cookies are, how you say, vivid.
they're a nice companion, though, to the lemon cookies, which look suspiciously like slices of hard-boiled egg.
Comments
Do the citrus slices taste like those very-bad-for-you-but-incredibly-yummy fruit slices one buys at the convenience store right in front of the register? You know, the pure sugar with food coloring?
Posted by: Reader | November 25, 2003 12:26 PM
they're cute!! I like them just fine. I think the sugar is festive.
Posted by: terry | November 25, 2003 12:29 PM
thanks. no, in flavor they are closer to a crumbly creamsicle than those "fruit" slices.
Posted by: julie | November 25, 2003 06:15 PM
Ooooooo, creaaaamsicles. Yummy! I wish I had time to bake!
Posted by: Reader | November 26, 2003 09:40 AM
Absolutely SPECTACULAR! Make a note on your recipe to continue with the color and sugar
for future reference.
Posted by: yr maw | November 26, 2003 11:57 AM