Ingredients
2 1/2 cup sugar
2 cup butter or margarine
2 large eggs
4 cup flour, unbleached, unsifted
1 large egg white, beaten
1 sugar
1 cinnamon
1 pecan, halves
Directions
Cream sugar and butter. Beat in 2 eggs. Gradually blend in the
flour. Chill dough overnight. Roll as thin as possible on well
floured board. Work with 1/4 of the dough at a time. Keep remaining
dough chilled. Cut into diamonds with a knife. Place on greased
cookie sheets. Brush each cookie with beaten egg white. Sprinkle with
sugar and a pinch of cinnamon. Placd a pecan half in center of each
cookie. Bake in preheated 350 degree F. oven for 8 to 10 minutes or
until edges are light brown. Cool on cookie sheets 1 minute, then
remove to wire racks. Store in airtight tins.
Servings: 24 servings
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The History of Recipes
We can read the history of meal recipes far back into the distant past, at least as far back as early Egypt, and potentially, even further back. Having said that, mostly, these old cookbooks were just very simple hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing meals.
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