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| Viennese Crescent cookies ready to go last night |
Once a year at Christmas
time I make this special cookie recipe that I got from my former co-worker
Mildred Stephen. Always a hit, those cookies rarely last more than a few days.
The lady on the right is Mildred. The photo was taken forty years ago at Girard
Bank December 23rd at our annual office Christmas party. Those were the days.
Viennese Crescents
Ingredients:
1/2
lb. unsalted butter (yep, LOTS of butter)
1/4 cup granulated white sugar
2
cups all purpose flour
1 cup ground nuts (preferably pecans but any nut will
do)
1 tsp. vanilla
Preparation:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2) Cream the room temperature
butter in a large bowl
3) Then add the granulated sugar,
flour, nuts and vanilla and mix thoroughly
4) Pull of small portions of the
dough and with your fingers into delicate crescents
5) Shape about 2 inches long and
1/2 inch wide and thick
6) Roll in confectioners' sugar
7) Bake on cookie sheets for
about 23 minutes or until just faintly browned
8) Coll and roll in
confectioner's sugar again
9) Place in cookie tin lined with
tissue paper, close lid
10) Surprise your favorite
neighbor or friend with your special gift of love
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| Christmas Party December 23, 1974 - lady on far right is Mildred Stephen, who gave me her recipe for Viennese Crescent cookies - thank you Mildred!! |
8 comments:
Just finished baking crescent moon cookies, recipe is very similar. Only you did half the cookie in chocolate and dust the other end with confectioners sugar. It is messy, but fun and they taste really good.
Cindy from Sonoma
Hey Cindy, these cookies are hard enough to make as it is. (smile). I bet they do taste good with chocolate but I'll keep mine plain. I like the fact that they're not as sweet as the usual Christmas cookie.
Ron
Boy, those look good!
Peace <3
Jay
I love the photos. They remind me of my Better Home and Gardens cookbooks from the same era. Why, the colours are the same!
They are good Jay!
Thank you Dr. Spo.
Ron
Wow - mini skirts were still very much in fashion then as shown in your photo!
Pat
Pat,
And back then all the women wore dresses or skirts. No pants suits. I remember when pants suits first cam into fashion, Bill P., our boss, insisted that the top had to match the bottom or else he would send the employee home to change clothes. Times have changed.
Ron
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