Hungarian Pastry

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1/4 lb butter (i use butter) or 1/4 lb margarine (i use butter)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs, separated
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 pinch baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• jam (i use raspberry)
• 1 cup ground nuts (i use walnuts)
• 2 tablespoons sugar

Recipe

• 1 cream butter/margarine and sugar.
• 2 add vanilla and egg yolks.
• 3 cream together well.
• 4 add sifted flour with soda and baking powder.
• 5 mix well.
• 6 then pat dough out onto cookie sheet with sides or a large shallow pan.
• 7 spread with jam and 1/2 cup ground nuts.
• 8 then over that spread the well beaten egg whites.
• 9 then sprinkle the other half of ground nuts to which 2 tablespoons of sugar have been added.
• 10 bake 1/2 hour at 325 degrees fahrenheit.
• 11 layers are:.
• 12 dough.
• 13 jam.
• 14 nuts.
• 15 egg whites.
• 16 nuts with sugar.
• 17 when cool, cut into 2 inch squares.