Cooking Recipe Almond Shorts

Recipe Ingredients

1 c Sugar
1 c Sugar, brown
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Vinegar
1 ts Vanilla extract
3 Eggs
1 lb Butter
6 c Flour
2/3 c Almonds, slivered

Directions

Combine sugars, baking soda, vinegar, and vanilla. Stir in eggs. Cut
butter into small pieces and work into mixture. Add flour, a cup at a
time, and mix well. Knead in almonds. Gather dough into ball and
divide into five equal pieces. Roll each piece into a cylinder. If
you wish, roll each cylinder in colored sugar. Wrap in wax paper and
refrigerate overnight.

Preheat oven to 350. Cut each log into 1/4" slices. Bake on ungreased
cookie sheet for 8 minutes. "This recipe is a tradition in my
husband's Swedish family. It makes enough cookies to feed the Swedish
Army."

Recipe by Sandra Silfven, Detroin News food editor. Source: _Gifts
from the Christmas Kitchen_, sent by BEE to Sylvia Steiger
(THE.STEIGERS on GEnie, 71511,2253 on CI$) for the November 1992
cookbook swap

Categories matching this recipe

Christmas ,Candies ,Holiday