NORWEGIAN MARSEPAN PASTRY
Source of Recipe
Lena Marie Simons
List of Ingredients
1 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
3 tbls. milk
1 tsp. almond flavoring
2 tsp. baking powder
Filling:
2 cups almond paste
1 tsp. lemon juice
2-3/4 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
Other fruit such as prunes, preserves or jellies may be used for filling. .
Recipe
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and milk and mix well. Roll dough in long strips on a buttered cookie sheet with a spoon. Make a dent in the center of a long strip. Spread filling. Prepare a pie crust dough and be sure to use butter instead of shortening. Roll out thin and cut into narrow strips with pastry cutter. Make a latticework pattern with strip and of crust and place over cookies. Bake 20 min. in 350 degree oven. Cut into bars while warm. Makes a large quantity of pastry. Lots of work, but different and very good.
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