Royal Crown Cookies

Ingredients

• 0.5 cupbutter
• 0.25 cupgranulated sugar
• 2hard-cooked egg yolks, pressed through a coarse sieve
• 0.25 tspalmond extract
• 0.25 tspsalt
• cupall-purpose flour (quantity not legible on source page — approximately 1 cup)
• canned cherries or other fruit, for decoration

Method

1. 1Force hard-cooked egg yolks through a coarse sieve. Add sugar and almond extract; beat well until light.
2. 2Add butter and flour; mix well.
3. 3Use a crown design on a cookie press, or drop by teaspoonful onto a greased cookie sheet.
4. 4Decorate crowns with canned cherries or other fruit as 'jewels,' if desired.
5. 5Bake in moderate oven (375°F) for about 10 minutes.