Julia Childs Famous Butter Spritz Cookies

I loved to watch the funny antics that this fine woman
performed on the old black and white PBS cooking shows.
Here is one of her best and classic butter cookie recipes,
Julia really loved to use a lot of sweet creamery butter!
This is a simple butter cookie that can be cookie pressed,
used as a drop cookie or made into a roll and sliced.

Tuiles aux Butter!
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups butter
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract

Directions:
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and white sugar
until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg,
then stir in the vanilla and almond extracts.
Combine the flour and salt; stir into the sugar mixture.
Cover dough, and chill for at least one hour.
Chill cookie sheets.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Press or drop dough out onto ungreased, chilled cookie sheets.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven,
or until lightly golden at the edges.
Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.
Drizzle melted clarified butter on top if desired!