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Viennese crescents
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Cookies & Bars, Desserts, Viennese, Western European |
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Ingredients:
| 1/4
| | Vanilla bean | | 1
| cup | Confectioners' sugar | | 1
| cup | Walnut meats | | 1
| cup | Butter, at room temperature | | 3/4
| cup | Granulated sugar | | 2 1/2
| cup | Flour, all-purpose, sifted |
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Procedures:
| 1 | Chop the vanilla bean. | | 2 | Pound it in a mortar or pulverize it in an electric blender with about one tablespoon of the sugar. | | 3 | Mix with the remaining confectioners" sugar. | | 4 | Cover and let stand, preferably overnight. | | 5 | Reserve while cookies are baked. | | 6 | Preheat the oven to moderate (350°F). | | 7 | Cut the walnuts with a sharp knife into very small pieces. | | 8 | Pound the pieces to a paste, using a mortar and pestle. | | 9 | With a wooden spoon or the fingers, mix the walnuts, butter, granulated sugar and flour to a smooth dough. | | 10 | Shape the dough, about a teaspoon at a time, into small crescents, about one and one-half inches in diameter. | | 11 | Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet until slightly browned, or 15 to 18 minutes. | | 12 | Cool one minute. | | 13 | While still warm, roll the cookies in the prepared vanilla sugar. |
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