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- From: aviva@excelan (Aviva Garrett)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Walnut horn cookies
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- Date: 30 Jan 87 04:45:19 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE WALNUT-HORNS D "6 Oct 86" 1987
- .RZ "WALNUT HORNS" "Rolled, walnut-filled cookies
- This recipe has been in the family for a while.
- These cookies make great Christmas gifts.
- .IH "makes about 60 cookies"
- .IG "2 cups" "flour" "200 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "butter" "250 g"
- .IG "8 oz" "sour cream" "225 g"
- .IG "1" "egg yolk"
- .IG "1 cup" "brown sugar" "200 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "ground walnuts" "115 g"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "cinnamon" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "" "butter"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Cream the flour and butter.
- .SK 2
- Mix in the sour cream and the egg yolk.
- .SK 3
- Divide the dough into four parts, wrap in plastic wrap, and
- chill for several hours.
- .SK 4
- Mix together the brown sugar, walnuts, and cinnamon.
- .SK 5
- Roll each dough section on a floured surface until about
- .AB "1/8 inch" "3 mm"
- thick.
- .SK 6
- Spread about \(14 of the sugar/walnut/cinnamon mixture over each rolled
- dough section. Cut the dough into pie-shaped wedges and roll, beginning at the
- wide end.
- .SK 7
- Place cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Brush with melted butter
- .AB "(2 Tbsp" "(30 g"
- should be enough).
- .SK 8
- Bake for about 20 minutes at
- .TE 375 190 .
- If you remove the cookies from the oven before they turn brown,
- the dough will be softer and flakier.
- If you remove them after they have browned slighly, the dough
- will be crisper.
- .SK 9
- Remove cookies from cookie sheet before they have cooled
- completely, or else they stick to the cookie sheet.
- .NX
- During my childhood, these cookies tasted wonderful.
- However, now they strike me as a bit sweet.
- You could probably decrease the amount of brown sugar by \(14 to
- \(12 and make up for the loss in volume by increasing the amount of nuts.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy to moderate.
- .I Time:
- Initial preparation: 10 minutes; chilling: at least 2 hours;
- final preparation: 20 minutes; baking: 20 minutes.
- .I Precision:
- Measure the dough ingredients.
- .WR
- Aviva Garrett
- Santa Cruz, CA
- Excelan, Inc., San Jose, California, USA
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