Name: Gorayebah
Yield: Makes 30 to 36 cookies
Cuisine: Algerian
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons orange-flower water; 1 ½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 cup superfine sugar; 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour; 30 to 36 blanched whole almonds

Preparation info

Makes
30 to 36
cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Saffron Shores

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2002

About

Very fragile and rich, these butter cookies are easy to assemble. While these are a Purim treat in Morocco, they are also quite nice with mint tea any day of the week.

Ingredients

1 ½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 tablespoons orange-flower wa

Method

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. In a large bowl, cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add the orange-flower water and sugar and beat well. Gradually stir in the flour. On a lightly floured work surface, knead the mixture until the dough holds together. Form into walnut-sized bal