Recipe - Lebanese Butter Cookies Ghrybe

2 cup Solid rendered butter
1 cup Superfine sugar
1 cup Confectioners sugar
Approximately 4 c. cake
flour
Blanched almond halves

Place butter in mixing bowl and beat with electric mixer for about 1015
minutes until butter is white and fluffy. Add 2 types of sugar. Whip again
thoroughly with a spatula; gradually add flour and continue to mix with
spatula until the flour is absorbed and a medium soft dough is formed. Be
sure to mix with spatula, because heat from hands melts the butter. Add
more flour if needed. Remove mixture to lightly floured surface and quickly
roll with floured hands into rope shape about 1 One half inch diameter. Cut into
1 One half inch pieces on diagonal forming a diamond shape. Place one almond in
middle of each diamond. Place on baking sheet at 300 degrees until cookies
are set. They should remaining white not browned, about 1012 minutes. Let
cool on sheet. When cold remove carefully.

Posted to MMRecipes Digest V4 #187 by Julie Bertholf
jewel1@ix.netcom.com on Jul 19, 1997