Ghorabie (Short Cakes - Syrian) recipe

Feast of St. Barbara, December 4

1 cup butter, melted
2 cups flour
2 cups confectioners' sugar
Blanched almonds

Combine butter, flour, and sugar, working all together until the mixture can be made into small cakes. Press a blanched almond into the center of each. Bake in a slow oven (250° F.) until cakes are baked but not browned.

Yield: 2 dozen or more cakes, according to size

Source: Folk Party Fun by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, Association Press, New York, 1954