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Almond Cookie Recipes

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

Grandma's almond cookie recipes make deliciously homemade almond cookies your whole family will enjoy eating. You'll love the fresh taste of almond in these old-fashioned cookies.

Homemade almond cookies are great for taking on summertime picnics or for serving at parties or as an after-school snack.

An almond cookie is a perfect comfort food. Enjoy!

Almond Cookie Recipes

These recipes for making almond cookies are taken from Mom's old recipe scrapbook, circa 1929.

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.

Fanny Farmer's Almond Cookies

This vintage recipe for almond cookies is taken from "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Principal of the Boston Cooking School, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, circa 1916.

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.

So much better than the store-bought variety. Try one of these almond cookie recipes today.

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