Old-Fashioned Lemon Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup cornmeal
garnish
additional sugar

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar. Mix in egg yolks. Mix well.
Stir in lemon zest and flour and cornmeal.
Pat dough into a disc--wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 3-4 hours.
Roll out on floured surface about 1/2\" thick or a little less.
Cut in desired shapes.sprinkle with additional sugar and lemon zest, if desired.
Bake in 350\u00b0F oven for 8-10 minutes or until edges are just turning golden brown.
Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute before removing to rack to cool completely.