Lowney’s – Sand Cookies

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter (110g)
• 1 cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• 1 egg
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups flour (approx. 240g)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon mixed with
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• ½ cup blanched almonds (approx. 72g)

Method

1. Cream butter; add sugar, yolks well beaten, flour, baking powder, and salt, milk, and whites beaten to a stiff froth, and enough more flour to make of consistency to roll.; roll; shape with doughnut cutter; brush with water or white of egg; sprinkle with cinnamon mixture.
2. Decorate with halves of almonds. Bake in a quick oven (220°C, 425°F , Gas Mark 7, Fan 200°C).

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard