---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Currant Jelly Thumbprint Cookies
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 36 Cookies
 
    1/2 c  Butter
    1/4 c  Brown sugar; packed
      1    Egg; separated
    1/2 ts Vanilla
      1 c  Flour
    1/4 ts Salt
    3/4 c  Walnuts; finely chopped
           Red or black currant jelly
 
  Jelly jewels in a butter cookie nest dusted with nuts.

  Heat oven to 350°F. Mix butter, sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla
  thoroughly. Work in flour and salt until dough holds together.
  Shape dough by teaspoonfuls into 1" balls. Beat egg white slightly.
  Dip each ball into egg white, then roll in nuts. Place 1" apart on
  ungreased baking sheet. Press thumb deeply into center of each.
  Bake 10 minutes or until light brown. Immediately remove from
  baking sheet. Fill thumbprints with jelly.

  Recipe by Betty Crocker

  Terry's Notes:

  I like to fill cookies while still warm--it"melts" the jelly evenly
  in the hole so that it's not a "blob" sitting there looking at you.
  These also freeze beautifully if separated by layers of wax paper
  (so the jelly doesn't smear) and wrapped well or stored in plastic
  containers
 
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