Chill dough. Roll into 1″ balls. Place 2½″ apart on ungreased baking sheet. Bake until set, but not brown. While still warm, roll in confectioners’ sugar. Cool. Roll in sugar again. TEMPERATURE: 400° (mod. hot oven). TIME: Bake 10 to 12 min. AMOUNT: About 4 doz. 1½″ cookies. MANDEL KAGER (Almond Cookies) _These little cakes of intriguing flavor are always on hand for Norway’s holiday festivities._ Mix together thoroughly ... 1 cup soft shortening (part butter) ½ cup sugar 1 egg Sift together and stir in ... 1⅔ cups _sifted_ GOLD MEDAL Flour ½ tsp. baking powder 1 tbsp. cinnamon (3 tsp.) 1 to 1½ tsp. ground cardamom Mix in ... ½ cup chopped toasted almonds Chill dough. Roll into 1″ balls. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Flatten slightly. Brush tops with _egg glaze_ (1 slightly beaten egg yolk mixed with 1 tbsp. water). Top each with a blanched almond half. Bake until golden brown. TEMPERATURE: 375° (quick mod. oven). TIME: Bake 10 to 12 min. AMOUNT: About 3½ doz. 1½″ cookies. [Illustration: Life-size candid camera shot of a Berliner Krans.] _All you have to do—_to shape a Berliner Krans: Form a circle and bring one end over and through. [Illustration] If rich dough splits apart or seems crumbly, let it get slightly warm or work in a few drops of liquid until the dough sticks together. =BERLINER KRANSER= (Berlin Wreaths) _Delicious and buttery, these gay little wreaths are made each holiday season in Norway._ Mix together thoroughly ... 1½ cups soft shortening (half butter) 1 cup sugar 2 tsp. grated orange rind 2 eggs Stir in ... 4 cups _sifted_ GOLD MEDAL Flour Chill dough. Break off small pieces and roll to pencil size about 6″ long and ¼″ thick. Form each piece into a circle, bringing one end over and through in a single knot. (_See sketch above._) Leave ½″ end on each side. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Brush tops with _meringue_ (made by beating 1 egg white until stiff, gradually beating in 2 tbsp. sugar). Press bits of red candied cherries on center of knot for holly berries. Add little jagged leaves cut out of green citron. Bake until set ... but not brown. TEMPERATURE: 400° (mod. hot oven). TIME: Bake 10 to 12 min. AMOUNT: About 6 doz. 2″ cookies. =PRESS= COOKIES [Sidenote: Buttery morsels in intriguing shapes.] HOW TO MAKE COOKIES WITH A PRESS Force dough through a cooky press (or pastry tube). Follow directions accompanying cooky press. Hold the press upright, and force out the dough until it appears at the edge of the mold ... then lift the press away. [Illustration] SPRITZ ( (KEY) Recipe) (“Spurted out of a press”) _Crisp, fragile, buttery-tasting curlicues._ Mix together thoroughly ... 1 cup soft butter ⅔ cup sugar 3 egg yolks 1 tsp. flavoring (almond or vanilla) or 4 tbsp. grated almonds. Work in with the hands ... 2½ cups _sifted_ GOLD MEDAL Flour