Sandtortchen (sand Tarts)

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 cups butter or 2 cups margarine
• 2 large eggs
• 4 cups flour, unbleached, unsifted
• 1 large egg , beaten
• sugar
• cinnamon
• pecans, halves

Recipe

• 1 cream sugar and butter.
• 2 beat in 2 eggs.
• 3 gradually blend in the flour.
• 4 chill dough overnight.
• 5 roll as thin as possible on well floured board.
• 6 work with 1/4 of the dough at a time.
• 7 keep remaining dough chilled.
• 8 cut into diamonds with a knife.
• 9 place on greased cookie sheets.
• 10 brush each cookie with beaten egg .
• 11 sprinkle with sugar and a pinch of cinnamon.
• 12 placd a pecan half in center of each cookie.
• 13 bake in preheated 350 degree f. oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are light brown.
• 14 cool on cookie sheets 1 minute, then remove to wire racks.
• 15 store in airtight tins.