Recipe - Birds Nests Cookies

One half cup Butter
One fourth cup Brown sugar; (light or dark)
1 Egg
1 cup Sifted allpurpose flour
1 cup Chopped nuts; (pecans or
walnuts)

Deena Abraham was looking for cookies her grandmother use to make for her.
This is a version that I made back in the 60s for my children. It is from a
cookbook published by a chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women in
1956.

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolk and beat. Add flour and mix
thoroughly. Form into small balls about the size of a walnut. Roll in
slightly beaten egg white and then in nuts. Make indentation in center of
cookie with a thimble. Bake in 350 degree oven for 8 minutes. Remove
cookies and press center again. Bake another 10 minutes. When cool fill
centers with your choice of jam or jelly or thin butter cream frosting
tinted as many colors as suits you. I usually did some with jelly and the
others in pink, green and blue frosting. Use a metal thimble the plastic
could melt when hot.
Posted to JEWISHFOOD digest by Jerome Emer j.emer@megsinet.net on May
21, 1998