Recipe - Jan Hagel (54)

1 One fourth cup Flour
Three fourths cup Sugar; divided
One half teaspoon Cinnamon
One half cup Cold sweet butter; in small
pieces
1 Egg; separated
One half cup Sliced unblanched almonds

Heat oven to 350F. In large bowl combine flour, One half cup sugar, and cinnamon.
Cut in butter; work mixture with fingertips til small crumbs form. Add yolk
and work in til well blended; shape dough into ball. Press evenly into
wellgreased 13X9X2" metal baking pan. Brush with slightly beaten egg
white; sprinkle with remaining One fourth cup sugar and the almonds, pressing them
into the dough. Bake 1820 minutes or til lightly browned. Cool a few
minutes, then, using a cleaver and pressing down firmly, cut into 2X1"
bars. Finish cooling in pan on rack before taking from pan. Per cookie: 43
cal, 1 g pro, 5 g car, 2 g fat, 10 mg cho. Jean B.l

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 470 by JB
jbxyz@ma.ultranet.com on Jan 07, 1998