Kourambiethes (powdered sugar cookies)

30 Cookies

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Butter; softened
¼ cup Powdered sugar
1 Egg yolk
½ teaspoon Soda
2 tablespoons Whiskey
3 cups All-purpose flour (to 3-1/2)
Whole cloves
Powdered sugar

Directions

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy; add egg yolk. Combine soda and whiskey; add to creamed mixture. Add flour, 1 cup at a time; mix and knead by hand, adding enough flour to make a soft dough.

Shape as desired into crescents or oblong balls.

Insert a whole clove in center of each cookie. Bake on ungreased cookie wheets at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. Dust generously with powdered sugar while cookies are warm.

SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in the early 1970s. Typed for you by Nancy Coleman

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