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Holiday: Holly Cookies

Source of Recipe

Gram Ma


List of Ingredients

½ cup butter
1 cup sugar
½ lemon, juice and grated rind
maraschino cherries
2 ½ cups flour
almond or pistachio nuts
green coloring
2 eggs
1 egg white




Recipe

Cream butter and sugar, add lemon and beaten yolks. Add egg whites beaten stiff, fold in flour and chill. Roll thin, cut with cutter, brush with beaten egg white, colored green: sprinkle with chopped nuts (blanched) and place bits of red cherry to represent holly berries here and there. Bake 15 minutes at 350°F.