Nut Crescents
Keys: Cookies Holiday
Yield: 60
Ingredients:
2 cup Unsalted softened butter or margarine
6 tbl Confectioners' sugar
2 x Egg yolks
4 cup Flour, sifted before
Measuring
1 cup Ground or finely crushed
Almonds, pecans or walnuts
----------------- topping---- ----------------
2 x Egg whites
1 cup Ground or finely crushed
Almonds, pecans or walnuts
1/2 cup Granulated sugar
Confectioners' sugar for
Sprinkling
Method:
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 to 12 minutes
1. Cream butter and confectioners' sugar in large mixer bowl until light
and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks. Beat in flour and 1 c ground nuts until
mixed. (Dough can be refrigerated up to several days; soften slightly
before shaping cookies.)
2. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Have ungreased baking sheets ready.
3. For topping, beat egg whites lightly with fork in shallow dish until
frothy. Mix 1 cup nuts and granulated sugar in separate shallow dish.
4. Roll a generous teaspoon of the dough in the palm of your hands into
a crescent shape. Dip top of crescent in egg white and then into
nut-sugar mixture. Place crescents on baking sheets about 1 inch apart.
Bake until bottoms are golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on pan a few
minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely. Sprinkle
lightly with confectioners' sugar before serving.
This winning recipe is from Mila Tomisek of Chicago. She prefers to use
unsalted butter, but says margarine can be substituted. The cookies are
very fragile. Mila first began baking these small, buttery,
crescent-shaped cookies with her grandmother during World War I; today,
at 82, she still bakes them for her children and grandchildren.
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