Anyone recognize this recipe?

[fenchurch]

Okay, here's an odd one for you... while cleaning my desk, I found a recipe for a pastry of some sort on a Post-It note in someone else's handwriting. And now I'm really curious as to what it could be.

Any guesses?

8 oz melted butter

(sifted together)
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder


I'm assuming the following are in cups, though it's not indicated.
1/4 white sugar
1 1/4 brown sugar

1 egg + 1 yolk

And that's it. No other instructions including things like baking times.

Comments

[djonn]

I agree that it almost has to be for cookies or something cookie-like; there are actually some similarities (and some differences) to a chocolate-chip cookie recipe my newspaper ran recently in its food section.

Based on the newspaper's recipe, here's one way you could test it out:

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Melt the butter; while it's still hot, add both kinds of sugar and cream together till smooth. Whisk together the egg and egg yolk till beaten; add to butter mixture and stir till well combined. Set this mixture aside so that it cools slightly.

In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, salt, and baking powder (or sift per the directions above).

Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture until you have cookie dough. Chill the dough thoroughly (the chocolate chip recipe I have says for an hour).

My newspaper recipe calls for forming the chilled dough into walnut-sized balls and baking at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes. This is probably a good starting point, although I'd check these at 8-9 minutes (then again, my oven runs slightly hot). Its yield is about 2 dozen cookies -- but the proportions are a bit different, and this set of ingredients calls for more flour and a different proportion of sugars. Assuming this works at all, I'd predict 3 dozen cookies in a batch.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'd been planning on giving it a try today, just to see how it turns out. I probably would have gone for 350, though, so I'm glad you mentioned 375... I suspect that's a better temp.