Sand Tart (Sable)

Ingredients

• One pound of sugar
• one pound of flour
• the yolks of five eggs
• six ounces of butter
• three tablespoonfuls of thick sour milk
• one pinch of soda
• the whites of two eggs
• sprinkle with sugar
• mixed with a little powdered cinnamon
• and chopped almonds

Method

1. 1

   Mix the sugar, flour, yolks of eggs, butter, and sour milk with dissolved soda to form a hard dough.

2. 2

   Roll thin, moisten with beaten egg whites, cut into desired shapes, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and almonds.

3. 3

   Bake quickly on a buttered pan.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sand tart (Sable). One pound of sugar, one pound of flour, the yolks of five eggs, six ounces of butter, and three tablespoonfuls of thick sour milk in 7o THE HOTEL ST. FRANCIS COOK BOOK which has been dissolved one pinch of soda. Mix to a hard dough and roll very thin. Beat the whites of two eggs and use to moisten the top of the rolled dough. Cut in the desired shape, sprinkle with sugar mixed with a little powdered cinnamon and chopped almonds

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