Maria Mannherz's S's

Ingredients [American]

• 225 g butter
• 200 g sugar, scant
• Either:
• 6 yolks
• 4 whole eggs
• Either:
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp lemon extract
• a little salt
• 520 to 550 g cake flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• egg wash

Directions

Preheat oven to 175 degrees C.

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each. Add extract and beat.

Sift or mix dry ingredients, and beat in. Dough will be very sticky.

Chill at least a half hour, and keep dough chilled while you roll it.

Roll a lump of dough into a log, 1/2 inch in diameter. Cut log into 3 or 4-inch lengths and form S's. Brush tops with egg wash (whole egg, yolk or white thinned with a milk or water) and sprinkle with sugar. Bake 20 to 25 minutes (more for larger S's).