New Orleans Jumbles

Name: New Orleans Jumbles
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 19 min
Total time: 34 min
Yield: 60 cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup butter; 1 cup sugar; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 3 cups flour; 1 egg, well beaten; grated rind of one orange

Submitted by Molly53

"A lovely little morsel perfect with tea. From the Creole chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947."

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Ready In:: 34mins
Ingredients:: 6
Yields:: 60 cookies

ingredients

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
3 cups flour
1 egg, well beaten
grated rind of one orange

directions

Preheat oven to 350F and lightly grease a cookie sheet.
Sift flour.
Cream butter, sugar, salt and orange rind until fluffy.
Add flour, working it thoroughly into the dough.
Sprinkle counter with sugar and roll small, log-shaped pieces of dough; join ends to make rings 1 1/2" across.
Bake approximately 8-10 minutes or until golden.