Nutmeg Butter
Fingers
Area 5
Spring Meeting, Ellsworth, ME 2010
1 cup butter
¾ sugar
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
¾ tsp. nutmeg
Cream butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla, then add flour and nutmeg. Shape dough into fingers. Bake at 350 13-15 minutes. Cool then frost.
Frosting:⅓ cup butter
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsps. rum flavoring (the lady who gave us the recipe used real rum)
2 cups confectionary sugar
2 tbsp. light cream (she used milk)
After fingers are frosted, sprinkle nutmeg on top.
It is an old recipe from Land of Lakes found inside a box of butter in the late 60's.