Corn Cookies

Name: Corn Cookies
Yield: Makes 13 to 15 cookies
Ingredients: 225 g butter, at room temperature [16 tablespoons (2 sticks)]; 300 g sugar (1 1/2 cups); 1 egg; 225 g flour (1 1/3 cups); 45 g corn flour (1/4 cup); 65 g freeze-dried corn powder (see page 18) (2/3 cup); 3 g baking powder (3/4 teaspoon); 1.5 g baking soda (1/4 teaspoon); 6 g kosher salt (1 1/2 teaspoons)

December 14, 2011

For years, this was a recipe I didn’t let out of my kitchen—I don’t know why, but everybody has one or two recipes like that. I finally relented and gave a copy to Rick Bishop, Milk Bar’s favorite strawberry farmer, and he told me he hid it under his kitchen sink, where he knew it would be safe.

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