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Almond Crescents

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1 cup sugar
3 - 4 cups flour, just to get the dough to stop sticking to your hands
1 pound sweet butter
12 ounces of ground almonds
1 egg, slightly beaten

Cream sugar and butter. Add the ground almonds. Add the slightly beaten egg. Add flour one cup at a time but do not exceed 4 cups. If you use all purpose flour it's usually closer to the 3 cups and if cake and pastry flour closer to 4 cups. Mix ingredients until your hands are clean of the dough. Refrigerate until dough has hardened and easy to work with. Take approximately 1 tablespoon of dough roll out into a small snake and shape into a crescent. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven until golden (approximately 10 - 15 minutes depending on you oven) Let cool and enjoy!

Note: There are various variations after you bake these cookies! You can dip them in chocolate, roll in granualted sugar before baking, sprinkle icing sugar after or the best way is just plain!

Submitted by Janet A. Teslak


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