Sand Tarts
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1¾ cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- White 1 egg
- Blanched almonds
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
Steps
- Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and egg well beaten; then add flour mixed and sifted with baking powder. Chill, toss one-half mixture on a floured board, and roll one-eighth inch thick. Shape with a doughnut cutter. Brush over with white of egg, and sprinkle with sugar mixed with cinnamon. Split almonds, and arrange three halves on each at equal distances. Place on a buttered sheet, and bake eight minutes in a slow oven.
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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.