Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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   3      cups          flour
   3      teaspoons     baking powder
   4                    eggs -- separated
   1      cup           sugar
   1      teaspoon      vanilla
     1/2  cup           butter -- melted
   1      cup           milk
     1/2  cup           blanched almonds
   2      cups          apricot marmalade

Preparation:

Sift flour with baking powder. into a bowl; make well in middle of it. In another bowl, beat egg yolks with sugar and vanilla, then pour into flour. Add melted butter. Knead mixture into soft dough, slowly adding the milk as you knead. Let dough rest for 10 min. Separate dough into 4 parts and roll each out a quarter inch thick; cut into rounds, and place carefully on buttered cookie sheet. Beat egg whites lightly, brush over cookies; press 1/2 an almond into center of each. Bake in preheated 300F. oven for about15 minutes Remove from oven and cool. Spoon some marmalade onto half the cookies and top them with the others. Serve immediately.