Recipe#6680

Title: BISCOTA THIPLA ME MARMELADA (SANDWICH COOKIE)

SOAR

   3      cups          Flour
   3      teaspoons     Baking powder
   4      each          Eggs -- separated
   1      cup           Sugar
   1      teaspoon      Vanilla
     1/2  cup           Butter -- melted
   1      cup           Milk
     1/2  cup           Blanched almonds
   2      cups          Apricot marmalade
Sift flour with baking pwdr. into a bowl; make well in middle of it. In another
bowl, beat egg yolks with sugar and vanilla, then pour into flour. Add melted
butter. Knead mixture into soft dough, slowly adding the milk as you knead. 
Let dough rest for 10 min.
 Separate dough into 4 parts and roll each out a quarter inch thick; cut into
rounds, and place carefully on buttered cookie sheet. Beat egg whites lightly,
brush over cookies; press 1/2 an almond into center of each. Bake in preheated
300 F. oven for abt.
15 min. Remove from oven and cool. Spoon some marmalade onto half the cookies
and top them with the others. Serve immediately.