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JELLY CENTERS – Gourmet, June 1948

INGREDIENTS 1 cup butter 1 cup confectioners sugar 8 eggs 3 cups flour 1 lemon 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup blanched almonds, finely chopped 1/2 cup granulated sugar Cream butter, add sugar, continue to cream until pale colored. Separate 6 eggs (whites will not be used). Make zest of 1/2 lemon and juice 1/2 lemon. […]

12-22-2023 4:32 PM
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OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS BUTTER COOKIES — Gourmet, December 1947

INGREDIENTS 6 eggs 1 pound butter 2 1/2 cups sugar, separated 6 cups flour 1 lemon 1 cup coarsely chopped almonds Hard boil 3 eggs, press the yolks through a fine sieve. (These whites are not used in this recipe.) Cream butter and add 1 1/2 cups sugar; reserve remaining 1 cup sugar. Separate remaining […]

12-14-2023 6:20 PM
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MORAVIAN WHITE CHRISTMAS COOKIES — December, 1946

INGREDIENTS 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 4 eggs 4 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons sherry PROCEDURE Cream butter, add sugar and cream until light-colored. Beat eggs and add to butter and sugar. Mix flour with salt and spices. Mix it in, alternating with the sherry. Chill […]

12-06-2023 2:22 PM
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About John

I have been writing fiction for as long as I can remember. I was first published in college, but wrote only intermittently for the next several decades, during which I started and ran a small business, entered medical school, and practiced as an academic emergency physician for almost three decades. I took up writing fiction more seriously around 2002, and since then have published short fiction in Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and other venues. One of my stories, “Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery,” has been reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Twentieth Annual Collection. My first novel, Half-Witch, was published by Small Beer Press in July, 2018.

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