Sage Cookies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups flour, all-purpose
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cornmeal
• 1/2 cup butter, no substitutes
• 2 tablespoons sage, fresh, snipped
• sage, dried
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 1 egg white
• fresh sage leaf (optional)
• sugar

Recipe

• 1 stir flour, sugar, and cornmeal in a medium mixing bowl.
• 2 cut in the butter with a pastry blender until the mixture resembles finem crumbs and starts to cling.
• 3 stir in snipped or crushed herbs.
• 4 add milk and stir with a fork to combine.
• 5 form mixture into a ball and knead dough till smooth.
• 6 divide dough in half.
• 7 roll half of the dough at a time unto a lightly floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness.
• 8 cut out dough using a 2 1/2 inch round or oval cookie cutter.
• 9 combine egg white and 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl.
• 10 brush cutouts with the mixture. if desired, place one or two small sage leaves on each cutout, and brush with egg mixture.
• 11 sprinkle cutouts with sugar and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 12 bake at 375 for about 7 minutes or until the edges are firm and the bottoms are slightly browned.
• 13 transfer to wire racks to cool.