This recipe is my grandmother’s. These cookies are extremely nostalgic to me. About 10 years ago I asked my grandmother to write down her recipe for me. She would usually use margarine instead of butter. But everything is better with butter right? Anyway, margarine could be substituted if you are vegan or lactose intolerant and would like to make a non-dairy variant, or as we say, parve.
- 1 cup of butter
- 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tsp. of vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups of flour
- 1/4 tsp. of salt
- 3/4 cup of finely chopped nuts
Chill dough. Roll into 1 inch balls and put in the oven at 325F for 12 minutes. They are ready when they show slight cracks on top, before they brown!
לא כל יום מבקשת העיתונות את תגובתה של דמות בכירה באקדמיה ללשון עברית. כשנשאל הפרופ’ משה בר-אשר, נשיא האקדמיה לגבי תגלית של כתב שמי קדום, הגדיר זאת הפרופסור כתגלית “סנסציונית”, נו באמת.
לכתבה בהארץ.
The first card in this impossibly balanced card house has fallen. The Israeli media is saying that the paramount criticism of the Winograd committee towards Halutz was the haphazard way the army recommended war. I draw immense satisfaction with that conclusion, since that is how I felt about this war from day one: the generals pushed a spineless civilian administration to war.
I thought I would add subtitles to this short segment from Israeli television. It was filmed in 1991 and it shows Israel Eldad tour around Jerusalem and debate with Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem’s mayor for 30 years, and recently deceased at the age of 95. Eldad is an old-school Revisionist, the kind you don’t meet any more, notice the Begin-like waving of the fists. And Kollek is an old-school moderate, the kind that understands simple, and down to earth coexistence.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L38w37MDSHg]