recipe
ingredients:
4 egg whites - whisked
1/2 cup fine sugar
1 cup dessicated coconut
1/4 cup melted butter
1 tabsp. crushed pistachios
method:
whisk egg whites at high speed with a beater. carefully and gradually add mixed fine sugar and dessicated cocount. quickly add melted butter
preheat the oven to 350 deg.
do not over mix the final mixture.
line a cooking baking tray with wax paper.
individually spoon the mixture, one table-spoon at a time, onto the baking tray.
sprinkle a bit with the crushed pistachio for garnishing the coconut cookies.
space the mixture. 2 inches apart from all sides.
bake until golden brown.
cool for 10 minutes at room temperature on a cooling rack.
carefully remove the cookies into a dish or a cookie jar.
serve with tea.
preserve in an air tight cookie jar.
Yield: makes 30 2 inch wide cookies.