Lace Cookie Baskets

Directions

1. 1
   Melt butter and add sugar, cooking until sugar is dissolved. Add flour, almonds and salt.
2. 2
   Stir one minute.
3. 3
   Remove from heat and add milk.
4. 4
   Beat until milk is absorbed and drop from teaspoon onto buttered cookie sheet.
5. 5
   (Use only a baking sheet with a nonstick Teflon coating and butter only the first batch.)
6. 6
   Bake 3 cookies at a time at 325° for 3 to 5 minutes or until barely brown.
7. 7
   Remove from sheet as soon as you can get a spatula under the cookie.
8. 8
   Work fast and mold cookie over the bottom of a glass tumbler to form a basket.
9. 9
   Makes 12 cookies.