Ingredients

• 3/4 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1/4 cup shortening, softened
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup sugar brown, packed
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp extract vanilla
• 1 cup flour all-purpose, sifted
• 1/4 tsp salt
• jam raspberry

Directions

1. Prepare walnuts.

2. Mix together shortening, butter, brown sugar, egg yolk (save egg white) and vanilla.

3. Sift together and stir in flour and salt.

4. Roll into balls the size of small walnuts.

5. Beat slightly with fork, 1 egg white.

6. Dip balls in egg white.

7. Roll in finely chopped walnuts.

8. Place about one inch apart on greased baking sheet.

9. Bake 5 mins in 375-degree oven.

10. Remove from oven.

11. Press thumb gently in top of each cookie.

12. Add raspberry jam in indentation.

13. Return to oven and bake 5 minutes longer.

14. Yield: 2 dozen

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