Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  1                cup  pignolia nuts
  1 3/4           cups  flour
  1              stick  butter/soft
  1           teaspoon  vanilla
     1/4      teaspoon  salt
  1                     egg white -- beaten

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350. Finely grind half of the nuts. Mix all ingredients but the egg white. Shape by rounded teaspoon into 2" crescent, one inch apart on ungreased sheet. Press nuts into dough. Brush with egg white. Bake 15 minutes.

Nutritional Information:

206 Calories (kcal); 1g Total Fat; (2% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 42g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 148mg Sodium