1988 1st Place: Fay Kuhn's Thumbprints Recipe

  1. Preparation Time: 20 min
  2. Chilling Time: 1 hour
  3. Baking Time: 15to 18 min
  4. 1.
  5. Beat together butter and sugar in a mixer bowl.
  6. Add in vanilla and egg yolk.
  7. Mix well.
  8. 2.
  9. Mix flour and salt, add in to butter mix and mix well.
  10. Cover; chill at least 1 hour.
  11. 3.
  12. Heat oven to 325 degrees.
  13. Shape dough into 1-inch balls.
  14. Beat egg white lightly in a small bowl.
  15. Put nuts in another small bowl.
  16. Dip each ball into egg white, then roll in nuts.
  17. Put balls 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
  18. Press thumb in the center of each to make an indentation.
  19. 4.
  20. Bake till light golden brown, 15 to 18 min.
  21. Cold on wire racks.
  22. Fill indentation with a small amount of raspberry jam.
  23. Faye Kuhn, of Earlville, Illinois, recalled growing up in the tough times of the '40s: "Despite the lack of finances, no holiday was ever ignored in our household.
  24. Christmas, however, held the highest of honors.
  25. .
  26. .
  27. We all boarded the train and off to the city we would go.
  28. We would arrive home loaded with 'Evening in Paris' cologne, mittens, socks, handkerchiefs and coloring books bought at Kresge's and Woolworth's.
  29. Mom would then visit the local A & P for turkey, cranberries, sweet potatoes, fresh grnd coffee, nuts, apples, oranges and one lb.
  30. of butter to baste ol' Tom with.
  31. However, there was one thing my mother didn't do in those days and which was to bake Christmas cookies, for neither time nor money allowed such a luxury."
  32. But when her mother retired, she started baking Christmas cookies, Kuhn recalls.
  33. The family wanted her to make the thumbprints, yet no one knew the name or possibly the recipe.
  34. "Mother put on her coat, crossed our back yard and knocked on our neighbor's door.
  35. She returned somewhat later, victorious, with recipe card in hand."

butter, sugar, vanilla, egg, flour, salt, nuts, raspberry jam

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/1988-1st-place-fay-kuhn-s-thumbprints-61396 (may not work)

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