Ingredients
1 cup butter/margarine (2 sticks)
1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp almond extract
2 1/4 cup sifted flour
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup finely chopped nuts
Directions
Mix butter, sugar, vanilla and almond extract together thoroughly.
Sift flour and salt together. Blend all ingredience together. Mix in
nuts. Chill dough. Roll into 1 inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie
sheet. Bake in preheated oven at 400* for 9-10 minutes until set,NOT
BROWN. Roll in powdered sugar while still warm. Roll once more after
cooled. Triple recipe and DO NOT OVERBAKE. THE SECRET TO MOIST
TEACAKES IS TO CATCH THEM WHEN THEY ARE SET (9 MIN).
Servings: 30 servings
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Categories: Cake; Dessert; Drink; Russian
The History of Recipes
Written cooking instructions as an idea can be observed back into ancient history, at least as far as pharonic Egypt, and quite possibly further than that. Having said that, generally, these old cookbooks were just simple pictorial recipes for food preparation.
As we move on, we find a couple of recipe books from the 1300s ; a book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, these books are unconnected to the indian curry that is popular today, but rather accounts of the types of meals prepared by the chefs of the wealthy. By the advent of the 20th century, cook books were highly popular due to higher levels of literacy, more free time and having more money to spend. |
We hope you enjoy this Russian Tea Cakes recipe.
