Sand Tarts

Ingredients

• One pound sugar
• one pound flour
• half pound butter
• two eggs
• leaving out the white of one
• half pound blanched almonds cut thin

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar, flour, add melted butter, then the beaten egg, roll very thin and cut in shapes.

2. 2

   Lightly brush them over with white of one egg, lay the almonds on and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, equal parts; bake quickly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 93. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sand Tarts. — Two cups sugar, one cup butter, three cups flour, two eggs, leaving out the white of one, roll thin and cut 162 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. in square cakes with a knife, spread the white of egg on top, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, and press half a blanched almond or raisin in the center. — Old Virginia, Sand Tarts. — One pound sugar, one pound flour, half pound butter, two eggs, leaving out the white of one, half pound blanched almonds cut thin

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