Cookie Recipes from Gourmet

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  1947: Old-Fashioned Christmas Butter Cookies
  A Gourmet article on Christmas cookies called these the "pride of the thrifty housewife," because they keep for weeks in a tin.
  
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  1949: Brandy Snaps
  You'll swoon over these extra-thin, melt-in-the-mouth cookies. They make perfect accompaniments to ice cream.
  
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  1951: Sugar Shuttles
  These delightful cookies are a real taste of the past: crisp and shaggy on the outside with a cakelike crumb. It's time they make a comeback.
  
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  1959: Gingerbread Men
  Of all of the gingerbread men recipes Gourmet ran over the years, this recipe blows them all away with its right-on-the-money classic flavor.
  
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  1965: Ginger Sugar Snaps
  It wouldn't be Christmas without these classic cookies. The spices -- equal parts ginger, cinnamon, and cloves -- are deepened with molasses.
  
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  1973: Crescent Cheese Cookies
  These jammy cookies are really rich little pastries, thanks to the inclusion of pot cheese (a slightly drier version of cottage cheese) in the dough.
  
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  1979: Linzer Bars
  Linzer cookies come in all shapes and sizes, but Gourmet picked these bars because they have all the appeal of the cookies with the ease of a tart.
  
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  1982: Chocolate Meringue Biscuits
  Cloud-light almond meringues crunch in the mouth, then dissolve on the tongue -- leaving the cool layer of chocolate to melt away slowly.
  
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  1987: Mocha Toffee Bars
  The country went wild for the combination of buttery toffee and chocolate in the 1980s. These chewy bars epitomize that over-the-top quality.
  
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  1993: Strawberry Tart Cookies
  Like tiny strawberry pies with sugar cookie crusts, these are a bite of summer that's very welcome this time of year.
  
  Get Gourmet's recipe for Strawberry Tart Cookies
  
  
  

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