Swingin' Easy WJEJ! - Household Tested Phone Party Recipes

Ingredients

2 cups butter

2 egg yolks

3 cups flour

1 cup confectioner's sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon brandy

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup almonds, chopped and roasted

Some rose water

Let the butter soften and cream it for 15 minutes, until it begins to turn white. Add the egg yolks, the brandy, and finally, gradually add the flour, until you have a dough that is neither too soft nor too tough. Let the dough stand for an hour in a warm place covered by a towel. Next with small amounts of dough shape round, rectangular or crescent cookies. Arrange them on a buttered pan and bake in a *medium oven for 15-20 minutes. after removing the Kourambiedes from the oven, sprinkle them with *rose water. Finally, sift plenty of confectioner's sugar over them.

* I can only guess that a medium oven is 350 degrees.

* Have no idea where you can get rose water or why it is even needed except to help the confectioner's sugar stick on the cookie.

These are known as traditional Christmas biscuits in Greece.

Submitted by Carole Carter-Grove