Cookies: In a large bowl, use a mixer to beat the butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add anise extract. One at a time, add eggs, mixing and scraping the sides of the bowl after each ...

Summer, I think, is the best time to read Hemingway. I’m hot and perpetually dehydrated, so the fact that everyone is downing drinks like there’s no tomorrow is appealing if not more understandable. I ...

In the weeks leading up to Christmas every year of my growing up, my stepmother, Susan, would steal away in the late afternoons and evenings to bake batches upon batches of Christmas cookies. Most she ...

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, anisette liqueur and orange juice. Mix well. Sift flour and baking powder and mix with other ingredients into a medium soft dough. Shape by rolling into small logs ...

•1/2 cup butter (1 stick) •3/4 cup granulated sugar •3 eggs •3 teaspoons anisette extract •2 cups all-purpose flour •3 teaspoons baking powder Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream butter and granulated ...