Recipe - Bird Nest Cookies

2 cup Sifted allpurpose flour
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 cup Butter or margarine;
softened
One half cup Light brown sugar; firmly
packed
2 Egg yolks
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
2 Egg whites; slightly beaten
2 One half cup Finely chopped nuts
Assorted jams; jellies,
preserves

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together flour and salt. Work butter in a
bowl until creamy. Add sugar and beat until well blended. Add egg yolks and
vanilla and beat well. Gradually add sifted ingredients and beat well after
each addition. Roll small amounts of dough gently into 1inch balls. Dip
balls into slightly beaten egg whites and roll in chopped nuts. Place on
ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Flatten slightly with the
fingers and make a depression in the center of each cookie with the thumb.
Bake 1215 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool cookies on wire cake
racks. FIll depressions with desired jam, jelly or preserves. Cookies may
be stored unfilled and the jam added later. Makes 45 dozen cookies.

FROM JANE CONN,

REDBOOK, DEC 1972, "THE GREAT

CHRISTMAS COOKIESWAP COOKBOOK"

From a collection of my mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which contained
lots of her favorite recipes, clippings, etc. Downloaded from Glen's MM
Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.