Categories: Candies, Christmas, Holiday 
      Yield: 168 servings 
  
      1 c  Sugar 
      1 c  Sugar, brown 
      1 ts Baking soda 
      1 ts Vinegar 
      1 ts Vanilla extract 
      3    Eggs 
      1 lb Butter 
      6 c  Flour 
    2/3 c  Almonds, slivered 
  
  Combine sugars, baking soda, vinegar, and vanilla. Stir in eggs. Cut butter 
  into small pieces and work into mixture. Add flour, a cup at a time, and 
  mix well. Knead in almonds. Gather dough into ball and divide into five 
  equal pieces.  Roll each piece into a cylinder. If you wish, roll each 
  cylinder in colored sugar. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate overnight. 
   
  Preheat oven to 350.  Cut each log into 1/4" slices. Bake on ungreased 
  cookie sheet for 8 minutes. "This recipe is a tradition in my husband's 
  Swedish family. It makes enough cookies to feed the Swedish Army." 
   
  Recipe by Sandra Silfven, Detroin News food editor. Source: _Gifts from the 
  Christmas Kitchen_, sent by BEE to Sylvia Steiger (THE.STEIGERS on GEnie, 
  71511,2253 on CI$) for the November 1992 cookbook swap