Julsterner (Swedish Yuletide Cookies) recipe

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Julsterner (Swedish Yuletide cookies)

 

1/2 cup butter or margarine (softened)

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 egg yolk

1 1/4 cups flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1 egg white, slightly beaten

 

Filling

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1/3 cup chopped walnuts

2 tblspns. sugar

dash of cardamom (optional)

 

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Cream together first 4 ingredients until well blended.

In a separate bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt.

Blend flour mixture with creamed mixture.

Chill dough for one hour or more.

Roll dough thin and brush with beaten egg white, cut into

2 1/2-inch squares. Remove to a lightly greased cookie sheet.

Mix walnuts, sugar and cardamom and place a very small

spoonful in center of each square and fold each point of the square

to the center.

Bake for 15 to 18 minutes. Cool on wire rack

 

Note: Before baking you can top the center of the cookie with a dot of

strawberry, currant or raspberry preserves.

The very tips of the squares can be cut if you find this easier to fold

cookies towards center.

Makes 2 dozen cookies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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