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NAME

     BUTTER-COOKIES - Simple butter cookies
     After reading the ingredients on a can  of  imported  Danish
     butter  cookies,  I thought: ``Hey! I can do this myself!'',
     so I developed the following recipe. It doesn't resemble the
     original  too  much,  but considering that the cookies don't
     stay around for more than two days, and that even my  mother
     liked them, they must be good!

INGREDIENTS (Makes 2-3 dozen cookies))

     120 g     unsalted butter, at room temperature
     90 g      granulated sugar
     150 g     white flour
     1         large egg
     5 ml      vanilla extract
     7.5 ml    baking powder

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Beat the butter with the sugar.
          (2)  Add the egg and vanilla and beat until you  get  a
               uniform mixture.
          (3)  Mix the flour  and  baking  powder  and  gradually
               blend  them  into  the mixture.  When you're done,
               you should have a rather sticky dough.
          (4)  Shape the dough into balls, about 2 cm  in  diame-
               ter.  Roll  them  in  sugar  and  place them on an
               ungreased cookie sheet, leaving about an  inch  of
               space  between  cookies,  so that they don't stick
               together when they expand.
          (5)  Bake in preheated  oven  at  175  deg.  C  for  20
               minutes.
          (6)  Remove from oven, let them cool for a  while,  and
               start eating right away.

RATING

     Difficulty: Easy.  Time: 20 minutes preparation, 20  minutes
     baking.  Precision: measure the ingredients.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Kriton Kyrimis
     Princeton University, Computer Science Dept., Princeton, New Jersey, USA
     princeton!kyrimis
     ``I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow...''