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      Title: ALMOND SHORTS
 Categories: Candies, Christmas, Holiday
      Yield: 168 servings
 
      1 c  Sugar
      1 c  Sugar, brown
      1 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Vinegar
      1 ts Vanilla extract
      3    Eggs
      1 lb Butter
      6 c  Flour
    2/3 c  Almonds, slivered
 
  Combine sugars, baking soda, vinegar, and vanilla. Stir in eggs. Cut butter
  into small pieces and work into mixture. Add flour, a cup at a time, and
  mix well. Knead in almonds. Gather dough into ball and divide into five
  equal pieces.  Roll each piece into a cylinder. If you wish, roll each
  cylinder in colored sugar. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate overnight.
  
  Preheat oven to 350.  Cut each log into 1/4" slices. Bake on ungreased
  cookie sheet for 8 minutes. "This recipe is a tradition in my husband's
  Swedish family. It makes enough cookies to feed the Swedish Army."
  
  Recipe by Sandra Silfven, Detroin News food editor. Source: _Gifts from the
  Christmas Kitchen_, sent by BEE to Sylvia Steiger (THE.STEIGERS on GEnie,
  71511,2253 on CI$) for the November 1992 cookbook swap
 
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