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     Title: Almond Sugar Cookies
Categories: Diabetic, Cooky/bars, Snacks
     Yield: 32 cookies

     5 tb Margarine (75 g)
 1-1/2 tb Fructose** (22.5 ml)
     1 tb Egg white (15 ml)
   1/4 ts Almond, vanilla, or lemon
          -extract (1.25 ml)
     1 c  Unbleached flour (125 g)
   1/8 ts Baking soda (.6 ml)
     1 pn Cream of tartar
    32    Almond slices
          **Substitute 4 pkts.
          -saccharin or 8 pkts.
          -aspartame or 4 packets
          -acesulfame-K for the
          -fructose.  It will not
          -change the exchanges.

 SOURCE: The Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook
   by Bonnie Sanders Polin, Ph.D., and Frances Towner Giedt,
   copyright 1993, ISBN #0-553-08760-6.

 Formatted into MM by URsula R. Taylor.

   Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C).  In a medium size bowl, combine margarine
 and fructose, beating until light and fluffy. Mix in egg white and almond
 extract.  Gradually stir in flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar; mix
 well.  Form into 1/2-inch (1.5 cm) balls. Place on a nonstick cookie sheet.
 Di a flat-bottomed glass into flour and press down on each ball to flatten
 cookie.  Top each cookie with an almond slice. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes,
 until lightly browned. Transfer to parchment or wax paper to cool.

 Makes about 32 cookies.

 Per 2 cookie serving: calories - 90, protein - 2 g, carbohydrate - 10 g,
   fat - 4 g, calories from fat - 40%, dietary fiber - trace,
   cholesterol ~ 0 mg, sodium ~ 49 mg, potassium - 33 mg, Joslin

 Exchanges - 1 bread/starch and 1 fat.

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