Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1997
We find that the right sweeteners and the proper ratio of flour to butter create gossamer-thin, lacy wafers; three tips make them easy to get off the baking sheet.
We decided right off to eliminate eggs from our lace cookies recipe because they tended to "puff" the cookies, which, to our mind, should be gossamer-thin with a brittle texture. What's more, the liquid protein in eggs can get int...