2/3 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 each egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp nutmeg or to taste
FILLING
1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tsp rum extract or to taste
1 nutmeg for garnish
Directions
Preparation time: 1 hour 30 minutes Chilling time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Cooking time: 12 minutes per batch
1. Beat butter in large bowl of electric mixer until light; beat in
sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla and salt; beat well. Stir in
flour and nutmeg until well mixed. Refrigerate dough, covered, 1 hour.
2. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Have ungreased baking sheets ready.
3. Shape dough into 1-inch diameter balls. Place 2 inches apart on
baking sheets. Press down centers with thumb. Bake until barely
golden, about 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks.
4. For filling, beat butter until light. Beat in confectioners' sugar
until fluffy. Add rum extract to taste. Beat well. Fill a pastry bag
fitted with a medium star tip with the filling. Pipe a star into the
center of each cookie. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Chill until filling
firms, 15 minutes.
This is a light and delicate cookie with a rum-flavored filling.
Rebecca Gottfred of Arlington Heights, Illinois says her recipe
doubles and triples easily and the baked cookies freeze well. from
the Chicago Tribune seventh annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest
December 8, 1994
Servings: 36 servings
1994 1st Place: Rumprint Cookies Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Alcohol; Beverages; Cookie
The History of Recipes
It is quite feasible to prove the history of written cooking instructions far back into antiquity, in truth as far back into recorded history as early Egypt, and potentially, even further back. Interesting though that maybe, generally, these old recipes were just simple hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing meals.
Closer to modern times, we find two interesting cookery books which were published in the fourteenth century ; a cookery book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these have no connection with the indian food that is popular today, but rather recipes for the types of food on the tables of the nobility of those days. By the time we get to the twentieth century, cook books are increasing in popularity mostly as a result of higher levels of literacy, people having increased spare time and having more disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this 1994 1st Place_ Rumprint Cookies recipe.
