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2 cups flour
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¾ teaspoon salt
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4 tablespoons sugar
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3 teaspoons Baking Powder
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4 tablespoons shortening
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1 egg
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½ cup milk
Sift dry ingredients together;
rub in shortening lightly with finger tips; add beaten egg to milk and
add to dry ingredients to make soft dough; divide the dough into six long
narrow pieces; with hands roll out on board each piece very long and thin;
spread with butter; cut each in two and beginning in center twist two pieces
together and bring ends, around to form crescent.
Put into greased pan; sprinkle
with chopped nuts. Bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes.
While hot, brush over with
thin icing made with ½ cup confectioner's sugar moistened with 1
tablespoon hot water |
