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Butter Cakes (Betty's Hungarian Pastries) Recipe

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Contributor:  
Lorraine Plantz - Teledyne Turbine Engines
Added: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Pastry Dough:
5 1/2 c cake flour
1 lb butter
1 T sugar
juice of 1/2 fresh lemon
2 T whiskey
1/2 pint sour cream
4 egg yolks

Walnut Filling:
1 lb ground walnuts
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 c milk
1 c sugar
Directions:
Directions:
Dough: Work butter into flour as for pie dough, leaving lumps about 1/2 size of pea.

Mix lemon juice, sugar, and whiskey in a cup and set aside.

Mix egg yolks and sour cream in a bowl. Take lemon juice mixture and add to flour, working together until all the flour is worked in. Divide dough into 3 balls, wrap in wax paper, and refrigerate overnight. Roll out dough and cut into 2 1/2 x 3 squares.

Walnut Filling: Place nuts in sauce pan, add milk and sugar. Heat until sugar dissolves. Add vanilla.

Fill pastries with nut filling and roll or pinch partially closed. Brush with beaten egg wash before baking. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

At Christmas, I double the dough portion and fill half of them with apricot filling. These are the first cookies to go at my house!

 

 

 

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