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>> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>>> What's your best recipe? The one you're famous for?
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>>> My best is flank steak and mashed potatoes and sauted onions.
>>>
>>> Yours?
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>> Cookies that have walnuts and syrup on the top and chocolate on the
>> bottom.
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> Ummm? You ARE going to post that recipe, aren't you? Please?
>
> Pretty Please?

Okay. Here it is!

Walnut Cakes

(Culinary Arts Institute Cookbook)



1 ¼ cups sifted all-purpose flour

1/3 cup sugar

½ cup butter

2 Tablespoons milk

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

½ cup chopped walnuts

1 to 1 ½ cups walnut halves and large pieces

Glaze, below

4 ounces (4 squares) semisweet chocolate



1.. Combine flour and sugar. Cut butter into mixture until particles are
very fine.
2.. Sprinkle milk and vanilla extract over mixture, and mix to a stiff
dough. Mix in chopped walnuts.
3.. Roll dough ¼ inch thick on a lightly floured surface, and cut into
rounds. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
4.. Cover each cookie with walnut halves or large pieces, pressing the
nuts lightly into the dough.
5.. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes. Remove cookies to wire rack and
place rack on a cookie. Spoon tops with hot glaze, and allow cookies to
cool.
6.. Melt chocolate over warm, not hot, water and spread each cookie bottom
with chocolate. Place cookies on waxed paper until chocolate is set.


Makes 1 dozen 3-inch cookies, 2 dozen 2-inch cookies, or 3 ½ dozen 1 ½-inch
cookies.



Glaze: Combine 1/3 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar and 1/3 cup light
corn syrup in a small saucepan. Bring to boiling and use immediately.