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Almond Shortbread

List of Ingredients

1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/3 cups sifted cake flour
3/4 cup blanched almonds
1 1/2 tablespoons extra sugar



Recipe

Cream the butter and the sugar.
Add the egg and beat till fluffy.
Fold in the flour.
Grease a baking sheet, 10 by 14 inches, that has low sides.
Spread the mixture evenly and thinly on the sheet with a knife.
Halve the blanched almonds and mix with the extra sugar.
Scatter this loosely over the paste.
Bake at 300 degree F until pale gold.
Cut across into squares when it comes out of the oven, but leave on the sheet to get cold.

Yields 18 cookies

This is a very nice biscuity confection and keeps perfectly in an airtight container.