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Grandma's Swedish Rusks

325 degrees...30 minutes, soft: 90 minutes, hard

• Cream 1 cup butter and scant 2 cups sugar together.
• Add 2 eggs and 2 t almond extract, and beat well.
• Add 1 c sour cream and 1 c chopped nuts and beat well.
• Sift together: 5 c flour, 1 t soda, 1 t salt, 1 t cardamon.
• Stir flour mixture into butter mixture.
• Divide dough into six parts. Shape each part into 15" rolls.
• Place side-by-side on UNGREASED cookie sheets.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Cut into 1" slices.
• If desired, double-bake the slices for one hour at 250 degrees.