Vanilla Pretzel Cookies

Name: Vanilla Pretzel Cookies
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 large, egg; 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks), unsalted butter, softened; 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon, granulated sugar (2 3/4 ounces/78 grams); 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 1 1/2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (7 1/2 ounces/213 grams); 1 , large egg white, lightly beaten with 1 teaspoon water; 4 teaspoons, turbinado sugar

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2008

These French butter cookies offer sophistication and style from simple pantry ingredients. That is, if you can capture their elusive sandy texture.

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SERVES Makes about 40 cookies

TIME 2 hours, plus 30 minutes chilling and 20 minutes cooling

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