There's is a good chance that people don't remember what a shuttle is. For those of you, here is a picture:
At one time, the textile industry in the US was centered in the Northeast and later moved to the Southeast. I don't think I need to explain why. In the 1990's I worked in South Carolina and at that time much of the textile industry was closing down as jobs and work was outsourced to foreign countries. Remember the Evil Empire's Buy American campaign, with shirts tagged as made in Honduras? I do. At the time, I was melting down looms left and right as mill after mill in the South closed. Milliken took a beating. Sara Lee gone (you didn't know they made clothes?). Too many others to count. We melted a bunch of them.
Anyway, these cookies a named after the shape of the shuttle on the loom they resemble. Perhaps it would be better to describe them as flattened footballs for those that don't know what a shuttle is but Sugar Flattened Footballs doesn't have the ring that Sugar Shuttles has.
The sugar shuttles were a pretty neat cookie to make. Much different than the usual cookie fare. The recipe only made 18 so I sent them off to work with Dinah. Because you dip the cookies in egg whites I found it much easier to form all the cookies first, then go back and dip and roll them.
It has a nice candy crunch that you get on the outside of the cookie:
My version of the recipe is here. Enjoy.
