Shortbread Cookies & Rugelach

Baked on
 Guess Who's Cooking
by Agatha Burrows
Originally aired on
Cable 12
 October 6, 2003

Agatha Burrows has been cooking and baking for a number of years and it’s something she loves to do. She is the mother of our show’s director and one of her other sons Derek appeared on two episodes earlier in the season. Agatha was a House Mother to the nurses in training at the Princes Margaret Hospital, the owner of a dress shop called Agatha’s and a sales representative for both Holiday Magic and Avon. Today she is a homemaker and she also sells baked goods.



To a mixing bowl add 1 cup of butter, 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of icing sugar, 1/2 cup of cornstarch and mix together. Form into cookie shapes with an indent in the dough. Add guava jam to the indent and then place into the oven for approximately 15 to 20 minutes.

Add to a bowl 1 cup of pecans, 1 cup of currents, 1 tsp. of cinnamon, 1/2 cup of sugar and mix together. To another bowl add a 1/2 lb. of butter, 1/2 lb. of cream cheese and mix. Then to that mixture add 2 cups of flour, 2 tbsp of sugar and mix again. Form that mixture in to loaf of dough. Cut into four equal pieces. Roll each piece out flat onto a sheet of wax paper. Refrigerate for an hour. Coat the apricot jam on to each fattened dough sheet then cover the sheet with the pecan mix. Cut into wedge shapes and roll up from the bottom up creating a pastry that will resemble croissants. Bake at 350 degrees.
Ingredients

1/2 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup corn starch
1 cup flour
1 cup butter
guava jam

1/2 lb. cream cheese
2 cups flour
1/2 lb. butter
1 jar apricot jam
1 cup pecans
1 cup currents
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon