Filberts Crescents - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. soft butter
1/4 c. sugar
2 c. sifted flour
1 c. fine ground nuts (almonds, walnuts)
1 tsp. vanilla
confectioners sugar
1/4 c. butter
1/4 c. prune puree*
2/3 c. sugar
1 Tbsp. light corn syrup
1 egg
1 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 1/4 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/4 tsp. salt
1 Shredded Wheat biscuit
1/2 c. chopped walnuts

Preparation

Cream the butter and sugar well.
Add and mix in, one at a time, corn syrup, prune puree and the egg.
Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and spices; mix into the wet ingredients. Chill dough for an hour or more. That done, shape the batter into balls the size of a walnut.
Dip them, firmly, into the chopped walnuts and put them onto a lightly greased cookie sheet, walnut size up!
Flatten each cookie, slightly, with the bottom of a glass.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 10 to 12 minutes.
Cool on a rack.