This is a recipe I got from my mother. The cookies are pretty, and they taste good, too. I always make them when I'm in my annual holiday baking frenzy.

Ingredients

butter↗1 cup
eggs↗2
separated
vanilla↗1⁄2 teaspoon
brown sugar↗1⁄2 cup
flour↗2 cups
baking soda↗1 teaspoon
salt↗1⁄2 teaspoon
chopped walnuts2 cups
jelly↗

Step-by-step instructions

1
Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla.
2
Beat in egg yolks.
3
Sift together flour, soda and salt and add to sugar mixture.
4
Form into balls the size of a walnut, dip in slightly-beaten egg whites, and roll in chopped nuts.
5
Place on a greased cookie sheet and press down slightly in the center with your thumb.
6
Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.
7
Remove from oven and press down in center again.
8
Bake another 10 minutes.
9
Cool.
10
Just before serving, put a dab of jelly in the center of each cookie.

Source: food.com

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