Sand Tarts

Name: Sand Tarts
Yield: Makes about 3 dozen cookies
Ingredients: 2 cups (10 ounces/283 grams), all-purpose flour; 1 3/4 cups (12¼ ounces/347 grams), sugar; 3/4 teaspoon, salt; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter (2 sticks), softened; 1 , large egg plus 1 egg yolk; 1 1/2 teaspoons, ground cinnamon; 1/4 cup, sliced almonds (see note)

Desserts or Baked Goods
Cookies
Holiday
Lost Recipes

Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2008

These once-popular cinnamon-sugar cookies are now mostly forgotten-maybe because the dough is so hard to work with. We wanted to resurrect these thin, crisp, buttery cookies with an easier recipe.

SERVES Makes about 3 dozen cookies

TIME 1¾ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling

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