Lace Cookie Baskets - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2/3 c. ground almonds
1/4 c. butter
1/2 c. sugar
2 Tbsp. milk
2 Tbsp. flour
pinch of salt

Preparation

Melt butter and add sugar, cooking until sugar is dissolved. Add flour, almonds and salt.
Stir one minute.
Remove from heat and add milk.
Beat until milk is absorbed and drop from teaspoon onto buttered cookie sheet.
(Use only a baking sheet with a nonstick Teflon coating and butter only the first batch.)
Bake 3 cookies at a time at 325\u00b0 for 3 to 5 minutes or until barely brown.
Remove from sheet as soon as you can get a spatula under the cookie.
Work fast and mold cookie over the bottom of a glass tumbler to form a basket.
Makes 12 cookies.