1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 cups flour

1 cup almonds, ground in food processor

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 teaspoons orange or lemon rind, grated

confectioners’ sugar

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees
2. Cream butter and sugar.  Mix with flour, almonds, vanilla, and grated rind.
3. Break off small pieces of dough, shape into 2” pencil strips, and arrange on a cookie sheet, turning ends toward each other to form a crescent.
4. Bake at 300 degrees for 35 minutes.  Cool.  Roll in confectioners’ sugar.

Yields approximately 4 dozen cookies