Kourambiethes (powdered sugar cookies)
30 Cookies
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Butter; softened |
| ¼ | cup | Powdered sugar |
| 1 | Egg yolk | |
| ½ | teaspoon | Soda |
| 2 | tablespoons | Whiskey |
| 3 | cups | All-purpose flour (to 3-1/2) |
| Whole cloves | ||
| Powdered sugar | ||
Directions
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy; add egg yolk. Combine soda and whiskey; add to creamed mixture. Add flour, 1 cup at a time; mix and knead by hand, adding enough flour to make a soft dough.
Shape as desired into crescents or oblong balls.
Insert a whole clove in center of each cookie. Bake on ungreased cookie wheets at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. Dust generously with powdered sugar while cookies are warm.
SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in the early 1970s. Typed for you by Nancy Coleman