2 cups flour
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 egg, white only
chopped almonds mixed with sugar

Cream the butter. Add the sugar and the beaten eggs. Mix and sift
flour and baking powder together. Add to the first mixture. Toss on
floured pastry board. Roll out 1/8 inch thick. Cut with biscuit
cutter. Place on greased pastry sheets. Brush over each sand cake the
white of egg unbeaten and diluted with a little cold water. Sprinkle
with the chopped almonds. Bake in slow oven for about 10 minutes.