1988 1st Place: Fay Kuhn's Thumbprints Recipe
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Ingredients : 1988 1st Place: Fay Kuhn's Thumbprints Recipe
1/2 cup Butter
1/4 cup Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1 Egg, separated
1 cup Flour
1/4 tsp Salt
1 1/4 cups Finely chopped nuts
1/4 cup Raspberry jam
Preparation time: 20 minutes Chilling time: 1 hour Baking time: 15 to 18
minutes
1. Beat together butter and sugar in a mixer bowl. Add vanilla and egg
yolk. Mix well.
2. Mix flour and salt, add to butter mixture and mix well. Cover;
refrigerate at least 1 hour.
3. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Beat egg
white lightly in a small bowl. Put nuts in another small bowl. Dip each
ball into egg white, then roll in nuts. Put balls 1 inch apart on
ungreased cookie sheet. Press thumb in the center of each to make an
indentation.
4. Bake until light golden, 15 to 18 minutes. Cool on wire racks. Fill
indentation with a small amount of raspberry jam.
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. Christmas, however, held the highest of honors. . . We
all boarded the train and off to the city we would go. We would arrive
home loaded with 'Evening in Paris' cologne, mittens, socks, handkerchiefs
and coloring books bought at Kresge's and Woolworth's. Mom would then
visit the local A & P for turkey, cranberries, sweet potatoes, fresh
ground coffee, nuts, apples, oranges and one pound of butter to baste ol'
Tom with. However, there was one thing my mother didn't do in those days
and that was to bake Christmas cookies, for neither time nor money allowed
such a luxury." But when her mother retired, she started baking Christmas
cookies, Kuhn recalls. The family wanted her to make the thumbprints, yet
no one knew the name or the recipe. "Mother put on her coat, crossed our
back yard and knocked on our neighbor's door. She returned somewhat
later, victorious, with recipe card in hand." from the Chicago Tribune
annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 8, 1988
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