Recipe - Moms Favorite Almond Crescents

1 cup Almonds; ground
1 cup Butter; NO substitutes
1/3 cup Sugar
One half teaspoon Lemon zest
One fourth teaspoon Vanilla extract; OR almond
1 One half cup Allpurpose flour; sifted
1 ds Salt
Confectioner's sugar

Cream butter and sugar until very light and fluffy. Blend in extracts. Mix
in flour, salt and almonds. Chill thoroughly. Roll pieces of dough into
rolls about 21/" to 3" long and 1/2" thick. Form into crescents. Bake on
ungreased cookie sheet 12 to 15 minutes at 350 degrees F until light brown.
While warm, roll crescents in confectioners' sugar. Cool on racks and store
in a tightly sealed container.

Recipe by: Mary Spero

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by
MarySpero@prodigy.com (MS MARY E SPERO) on 4 No, v 1997