Judebrod (you-de-brod "o" with an umlaut) -- Swedish Christmas cookies
Judy Anderson

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
3.5 cup flour
2 oz. whipping cream or milk
2 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. cardamom
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. allspice

Cream butter, add sugar, eggs, and beat well.  Sift or stir together
other dry ingredients.  Gradually add to wet mixture alternating with
cream until thoroughly mixed.  Chill dough in fridge for about an
hour.  Roll out and use cookie cutters.  Optionally sprinkle cookies
with cinnamon sugar, and bake at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes.  I use
insulated cookie sheets, and bake only one sheet at a time, on the
middle rack.

I got this recipe from my mother, who I believe got it from her
mother, who was a Swede!  So it's even authentic.  (Well, I think the
whipping cream was instead skimmed off the top of the milk, but you
can't have everything with modern times.  And then I substitute milk
anyway because we don't usually have cream on hand.)  Fun fact:  The
copy my mom had said "one shot glass cream".  We had to guess about
the 2 oz. conversion, but it seems to work out OK.

Recipe makes quite a number of cookies (of course, depends on your
cookie cutter size!) so I frequently only make 1/2 recipe if I am not
bringing them to a party.