Almond Cookies Recipe

1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1/3 cup almonds, blanched and finely chopped
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tablespoon cinnamon
Clove, Nutmeg} 1/2 tablespoon each
Grated rind 1/2 lemon
2 tablespoons brandy
2 cups flour

Cream the butter, add egg well beaten, almonds, sugar, brandy, and spices mixed and sifted with flour. Roll mixture to one-fourth inch in thickness, shape with a round cutter first dipped in flour, and bake in a slow oven

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Best Nut Cookies Recipe

4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups pastry flour
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Put together like Superior Nut Cake, and put on an oiled and floured pan with a pastry bag or a spoon.
Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs, beat the yolks stiff. Beat in the sugar, a little at a time, and beat till very stiff. Beat in the vanilla. Add the salt to the whites, and beat till stiff and dry. Pour the beaten yolk mixture onto the whites; sift over it some flour, and sprinkle over it some nuts, and fold them in. Sift on more flour and sprinkle on more nuts, continuing thus till all the flour and nuts are folded in.

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Chocolate Cookies Recipe

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 ozs. unsweetened chocolate
2 1/2 cups flour (scant)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup milk

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, egg well beaten, salt, and chocolate melted. Beat well, and add flour mixed and sifted with baking powder alternately with milk. Chill, roll very thin, then shape with a small cutter, first dipped in flour, and bake in a moderate oven.

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