Julia Altshuler saw Sally selling seashells by the seashore and told
us all about it on Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:23:00 GMT:

>I want to make buttery lemon cookies. I started with a recipe from a

>Question: To get an intense lemon flavor on the cookies, instead of
>pressing them in granulated sugar before baking, might I brush them with
>lemon juice mixed with sugar? I'm thinking the flavor would be right,
>but I'm worried about them burning on top. Or is there some other
>reason not to do this that I haven't thought of? I've got 3 naked
>lemons sitting in my fridge with no zest on them.

I would put some lemon juice into the actual cookie, or use some lemon
essence (but I find the actual lemon tastes different to essence so I
prefer juice...)