
Sugar
Cookies
Isabella Guida of Long Island, NY, USA cooked these sugar cookies. Bella also presented a recipe for persimmon salad in the Audio Cookbook.
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"When someone says they don’t measure in a baking recipe I immediately have respect for the maker of the recipe. To know by texture and taste the right measurements means it is truly tried and tested and therefore also formed by passion and joy. I felt liberated by this knowledge and made sugar cookies to my taste by adding lemon for a bright top note and substituting a tablespoon of white sugar for muscovado to give a molassesy depth of sweetness. Finally I wanted to honor rolling the dough in sugar spread out on a table as Angel described in her grandmother’s recipe and, though I did not have a beautifully designed glass to press into the cookies or a loved one to help me form them, I was rewarded with a cookie that came out of the oven with irresistible crinkles that held the sparkling sugar."
- Bella