Recipe Friday: Tea cookies

This is the recipe I sort of followed, I left out the nuts and dipping them in egg whites. I also just put the jelly right in and popped them in the oven for 14 minutes and they turned out great.

• 1 lb butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 4 cups flour
• 1 cup walnuts
• jam or jelly

1. Mix flour and sugar together; add vanilla, egg yolks and butter.
2. Mix well; roll into a large ball.
3. Save the egg whites in a small bowl.
4. Crush the walnuts as fine as you can.
5. Roll dough into small balls (about a heaping tablespoon full.
6. Roll these small balls in the egg whites.
7. Then roll them in the crushed walnuts.
8. Place on greased cookie sheet.
9. Poke a hole in the middle about half way through with a thimble, or something around the same size.
10. Place in the oven at 350°F for 7 minutes, then repoke the hole.
11. Place back in the oven for 7 more minutes or until golden brown.
12. Then fill in the hole with jam or jelly.
13. Let cool.