Pascale's Hazelnut Cookies

Ingredients:

• 7 tablespoons (= soup spoons in Europe) ground hazelnuts (like coarsely ground coffee, but definitely not chunky)
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 3 tablespoons butter + butter to grease the cookie mold
• 1 tablespoon flour + flour to coat the cookie mold
• pinch of salt
• 3 eggs

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 230 ºC (450 ºF)
• Separate the eggs, keep the whites for this recipe
• Put the butter in a small sauce pan, and melt on low heat
• Add the hazelnut powder, sugar, flour, salt and mix
• Blend in the egg whites
• Butter the cookie mold (cookie size like madeleines or about 2½x7½ cm rectangular (1x3 inch)) and coat with flour
• Fill the cookie molds with the batter
• Bake for 20 minutes
• Makes about 12
• Same recipe can be made with ground almonds. [Recipe by Marie-Louise Linssen]