Almond Cookie Recipes

Here's How To Make Almond Cookies The Old-Fashioned Way

Golden Almond Cookies

1 egg, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2-3/4 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda, salt to taste, vanilla or almond flavouring, 1/2 cup of blanched almonds; cream butter well, add other ingredients, let stand overnight, cut desired size, shape and thickness and bake a golden brown. --Mrs. W. McDonald

Fancy Almond Cookies

Beat to a hard sauce 1/4 pound sweet butter and 1/4 pound pulverized sugar (sifted). Add the yolks of 3 well-beaten eggs. When a smooth cream, add 4 ounces blanched and sliced almonds, and 6 ounces flour (in which has been sifted 1 teaspoon baking powder). Stir with a wooden spoon until a smooth paste.

Use sugar in making the dough into balls, and set these 1 inch apart in greased pan. Wet the tops lightly and sprinkle with sugar and place an almond in the centre of each. Bake to a light straw colour.

1/2 cup butter, 1 egg, 1/3 cup almonds blanched and finely chopped, grated rind 1/2 lemon, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon, 1/2 tablespoon clove, 1/2 tablespoon nutmeg, 2 tablespoons brandy, 2 cups flour.

Cream the butter, add egg well beaten, almonds, sugar, brandy, and spices mixed and sifted with flour. Roll mixture to one-fourth inch in thickness, shape with a round cutter first dipped in flour, and bake in a slow oven.