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["Preparation Time: 30 min", "Chilling Time: 8 hrs or possibly overnight", "Cooking Time: 10 min", "1.", "Cream butter and sugar in large mixer bowl of electric mixer.", "Beat in Large eggs, one at a time.", "Beat in lemon rind and juice.", "Mix flour, baking pwdr and salt.", "Stir flour mix and grnd almonds into butter mix to make a soft dough.", "Divide dough into quarters.", "Chill dough, wrapped in wax paper, till hard, at least 8 hrs or possibly overnight.", "2.", "Heat oven to 350 degrees.", "Have ungreased baking sheets ready.", "3.", "Roll out one dough portion on lightly floured pastry cloth with a rolling pin covered with stocking or possibly roll between sheets of lightly floured wax paper to 1/8 -inch thickness.", "Cut out with cookie cutters.", "Return dough to refrigerator if it gets too soft.", "Transfer to baking sheets, leaving 2 inches between each cookie.", "Sprinkle with colored sugar if you like.", "4.", "Bake till very light brown at edges, 8 to 10 min.", "Transfer to wire racks to cold.", "Store in a covered tin.", "This second-place winner, from Judy M. Drux of Dyer, Indiana, makes very thin, crisp, delicate cookies.", "The dough keeps well in the refrigerator if well-wrapped.", "This cookie was a tribute to her husband's grandmother, Antonia Drux, who emigrated to this country from Germany in 1923.", "(Oma means ""grandma"" in German.)", "The recipe has been passed down as just a list of ingredients.", "Drux added a few hints to help make baking them easier for future cooks."]