Tea & Smoke

This cookie is a holiday-time tradition, but great all year long. And, it's actually more American than apple pie. (Ahem ~ The earliest recorded apple pie recipe appeared in an English cookbook in 1381!) The sugar cookie as we know it is genuinely American, created in the 1700s by Moravian settlers in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, who baked simple “Nazareth Sugar Cookies” from flour, sugar, butter, and eggs and shaped them with cutters. While older European cookies, like German Spr