Russian Tea Cakes take on Mexican Wedding Cakes....

[Guest guest]

Yeah! When I moved out west I noticed folks calling my Russian Tea

Cakes

'Mexican Wedding Cakes'. Always interesting to see how different

regions

make the same thing but attribute the origins to different parts of

the world.

This tea cake mystery shall go down in my notebook right next to the

question about pyramids and why they are found all over the

world.....

 

~ P_T ~

 

P.S. Thanks for sharing your Gram's recipes with us all, Sherri.

 

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing; it

refuses

nothing; it receives, but does not keep. Thus he can triumph over

matter,

without injury to himself.

-Lao-tzu

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, Sherri <sherria@o...>

wrote:

 

> Mexican Wedding Cakes

> (similar to the crescent, also yummy)

>

> 1 cup butter

> ½ cup granulated sugar

> ½ tsp salt

> 1 tsp almond extract or 2 tsp vanilla extract (I prefer almond)

> 2 cups sifted all purpose flour

> 1 – 2 cups finely ground almonds

> icing sugar

>

> Knead all ingredients together until nice and smooth. Shape into

small

> balls about ½ to 1 inch wide. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at

350F

> for 12 minutes or until light golden colour. Roll in icing sugar

while

> still warm.

>

>

> Enjoy! I'm off to start baking

>

> --

> Sherri

>

> They used dogs. They used probes. They used cardio plate

crossoffs.

> They used teepers. They used bribery. They used stick tites. They

> used intimidation. They used torment. They used torture. They

used

> finks. They used cops. They used search and seizure. They used

> fallaron. They used betterment incentives. They used finger

prints.

> They used the bertillion system. They used cunning. They used

guile.

> They used treachery. They used Raoul-Mitgong but he wasn't much

help.

> They used applied physics. They used techniques of criminology.

And

> what the hell, they caught him. (Harlan Ellison, " Repent, Harlequin,

> said the Tick-Tock Man " )

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