Kourabiethes (Greek Christmas Cookies) Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 lb. sweet cream butter
3/4 c. powdered sugar
1/3 c. orange juice
1 egg yolk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 oz. anisette liqueur, brandy or whiskey
1 box cake flour
1 c. chopped almonds or walnuts
powdered sugar to cover cookies
whole cloves, if desired
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Directions:Cream butter for 1/2 hour. Add sugar, egg yolk, juice, vanilla, liqueur and nuts. Mix all together. Add unsifted cake flour, mixing in by hand with above mixture until it sticks together and not to your hands. Almost a whole box of cake flour is required. Roll dough into balls, measuring 1 tablespoon of dough each. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, making a finger indentation on top of each ball. Insert a whole clove (if desired) as a reminder of the spices the Magi brought the Christ Child. Bake at 350º for 25-30 minutes, until slightly golden on bottom. Place a layer of cookies on the bottom of a cookie tin. Cover with sifted powdered sugar. Repeat until all cookies are covered in tin. These can be stored for a very long time. Eat in small bites...they will melt in your mouth! |
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Servings:6 dozen cookies |
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Notes: My Mother, Grandmother, Sisters and I would make these each year at Christmas. Like many families we had a tradition of baking cookies over the course of a day during Christmas break. We would get flour and sugar all over, eat our fill of "tastes", and the house would smell wonderful of baking all day long. It was fun to wear our Christmas aprons, and listen to Grandma teach us the meaning of Greek words and tell us stories of our Greek relatives. At the end of the day we would proudly share samples of our baking with our Grandpa, Dad and brothers.
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