Herbal lemon cookies

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       Title: Herbal Lemon Cookies
  Categories: Companion, Cookies, Harned 1994, Herb/spice
       Yield: 1 batch
  
       1 c  Butter
       2 c  Sugar; divided
       2    Eggs
       1 ts Vanilla extract
   2 1/2 c  Flour
       2 ts Baking powder
     1/4 ts Salt
     1/3 c  Dried lemon herbs*
            -- finely chopped
  
   *1/3 cup total: Herbs such as lemon grass, lemon thyme or lemon basil.
   
   Cream butter and 1 3/4 cups sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
   
   Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and herbs.  Add to creamed
   mixture; mix.
   
   Drop dough by teaspoonfuls, 3" apart, on a greased cookie sheet.
   Flatten slightly with a fork or cup bottom.  Sprinkle lightly with
   the remaining sugar.
   
   Bake at 350 F. for 8 to 10 minutes, or until barely browned. Cool
   slightly, then remove to a rack.
   
   Yield: 6 to 8 dozen cookies.
   
   Recipe from Nancy Brewer/New Orleans, Louisiana.  In "Kitchen Table:
   Where Herbs and Spices Make a Difference" column in "The Herb
   Companion." Dec. 1993/Jan. 1994, Vol. 6, No. 2.  Pg. 84. Posted by
   Cathy Harned.
  
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