Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Greek, Holiday 
      Yield: 30 cookies 
  
      1 c  Butter; softened 
    1/4 c  Powdered sugar 
      1    Egg yolk 
    1/2 ts Soda 
      2 tb Whiskey 
      3 c  All-purpose flour (to 3-1/2) 
           Whole cloves 
           Powdered sugar 
  
  Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy; add egg yolk.  Combine soda 
  and whiskey; add to creamed mixture.  Add flour, 1 cup at a time; mix and 
  knead by hand, adding enough flour to make a soft dough. 
   
  Shape as desired into crescents or oblong balls.  Insert a whole clove in 
  center of each cookie.  Bake on ungreased cookie wheets at 350 degrees for 
  20 to 25 minutes.  Dust generously with powdered sugar while cookies are 
  warm. 
   
  SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in the early 1970s. Typed for 
  you by Nancy Coleman