Title: Kourambiethes (Powdered Sugar Cookies)
Categories: Dessert Cookie Greek Easter Southern
Yield: 30 Cookies

1	c	Butter; softened
1/4	c	Powdered sugar
1		Egg yolk
1/2	ts	Soda
2	tb	Whiskey
3	c	All-purpose flour (to 3-1/2)
		Whole cloves
		Powdered sugar

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy; add egg yolk. Combine soda and whiskey; add to creamed mixture. Add flour, 1 cup at a time; mix and knead by hand, adding enough flour to make a soft dough.

Shape as desired into crescents or oblong balls. Insert a whole clove in center of each cookie. Bake on ungreased cookie wheets at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. Dust generously with powdered sugar while cookies are warm.

SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in the early 1970s. Typed for you by Nancy Coleman

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