Linzer Torte - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 3/4 sticks butter
    3/4 c. sugar
    1 c. flour
    2 egg yolks
    1/2 tsp. baking powder
    1 pkg. vanilla zucker (extract, found in specialty shops)
    rind of lemon
    1/2 tsp. cinnamon
    1 1/2 c. grated almonds
    1/2 tsp. nutmeg
    apricot jelly
Preparation
    Mix flour and baking powder; cut in butter.
    Add sugar, almonds, eggs and all other ingredients except apricot jelly. Knead to a smooth dough.
    Take a spring-form and flatten 3/4 of dough into pan.
    Spread jelly over dough.
    Take rest of dough and use rolling pin to flatten dough.
    Cut about 1/2 inch strips and lay crisscross over jelly.
    Bake at 325\u00b0 for about 20 minutes.

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