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1988 1st Place: Thumbprints

1988 1st Place: Fay Kuhn's Thumbprints comes together with Categories Cookies Holiday. Serves 24. Save it, add the ingredients to your shopping list, and cook it tonight.

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup
• 1/4 cup
• 1/2 tsp
• 1
• 1 cup
• 1/4 tsp
• 1 1/4 cup
• 1/4 cup

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Beat together butter and sugar in a mixer bowl. Add vanilla and egg yolk. Mix well.

2. 2

   Mix flour and salt, add to butter mixture and mix well. Cover; refrigerate at least 1 hour.

3. 3

   Heat oven to 325 degrees.

4. 4

   Shape dough into 1-inch balls.

5. 5

   Beat egg white lightly in a small bowl.

6. 6

   Put nuts in another small bowl.

7. 7

   Dip each ball into egg white, then roll in nuts.

8. 8

   Put balls 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.

9. 9

   Press thumb in the center of each to make an indentation.

10. 10

    Bake until light golden, 15 to 18 minutes. Cool on wire racks.

11. 11

    Fill indentation with a small amount of raspberry jam.

12. 12

    But when her mother retired, she started baking Christmas cookies,

13. 13

    Tribune annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 8, 1988