2 cups butter or margarine

1 cup sugar and

1/3 cup honey

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 teaspoons lemon juice

5 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 tablespoons crushed hard candies 
 

• In a mixer or food processor mix butter and sugar until smooth. Add honey, eggs and vanilla. 
• Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and form the dough. 
• Wrap and chill the dough overnight. 
• Roll out the dough and cut shapes with cookie cutters. Then cut out areas for "windows" or roll dough and cut shapes with some open spaces and put onto cookies. 
• Place the cookies on a well greased cookie sheet. 
• Fill the openings with crushed hard candies. 
• Preheat the oven to 350 F (180 C). 
• Bake cookies  for 8-10 minutes or until golden.
• Let cookies cool for 5 minutes before removing them from the cookie sheet. 
• Let cool completely on wire rock.