Name: Tiny Filled Dessert Pastries
Ingredients: 2 1/2 c All-purpose flour; 1 c Margarine; 2 Egg yolks; 1/2 c Sour cream; 2 c Pecans, ground; 2/3 c Dark corn syrup; Confectioner's sugar

Grace is reward, or favor, given to those who deserve judgment. If a judge found a serial rapist guilty, and then stepped down from his bench, agreed to take the death penalty in the criminal’s place, and sent the rapist on an all-expense-paid vacation to Hawaii for thirty years, that would be grace. The severity of the criminal’s crimes would be the measure of the judge’s grace. In the same way, the knowledge of what we deserve, and what it cost God to be gracious, is the measure of His fatherly grace. When it is said and done, the cross is the tape that measures the length and breadth of God’s grace. Like God’s wrath, His grace is holy. It transcends all human conceptions.

William Farley

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Appetizers, Pastry, Desserts	96	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2	c	All-purpose flour
1	c	Margarine
2		Egg yolks
1/2	c	Sour cream
2	c	Pecans, ground
2/3	c	Dark corn syrup
		Confectioner's sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Do not sift flour. Place flour in large bowl. Using pastry blender,
blend in the margarine until coarse crumbs form. 2. Slightly beat the egg
yolk and stir into flour along with sour cream. Mix well. Place on a
lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. 3. Cover and chill 30
minutes. 4. Mix the nuts and corn syrup in small bowl. 5. Roll out half the
dough (keeping other half in refrigerator) until dough is 1/8th inch thick.
Cut dough into 2 inch squares. Place 1/2 teaspoon filling on each square,
placing diagonally on dough. Moisten the 2 opposite corners slightly with
water; fold over filling and press edges together with your fingers. 6.
Bake on cookie sheet in preheated 400-degree oven for 12 minutes or until
edges are light brown. When cool, sprinkle with sifted confectioner's
sugar. Repeat with remaining dough and filling.
Yield: About 8 dozen squares.
Serving Ideas : A nice pastry for your coffeebreak.
Recipe by: Jo Anne Merrill Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #518 by Jeff Bacon
<[email protected]> on Mar 15, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. #Charles Spurgeon”

This guilt issue follows us throughout our Christian walk. And as we mature in Christ we learn the value of dealing with it rightly and the dangers of dealing with it wrongly. We learn that even though God has forgiven us, we can sense it when not God, but Satan “the accuser” (Rev. 12:10) seeks to remind us of our failures and faults. We learn how to engage in spiritual battle to prevent false guilt from setting in. We learn to not trust in our feelings as it pertains to guilt, but fully stand on the promises from God’s Word. We learn to allow that which makes us guilty to only be the things that violate God’s Word. We learn the difference between real guilt and an overactive conscience. We learn the need to keep excelling in Christ, but refuse to allow the conviction to grow spiritually become a continual self-loathing low-grade guilt that we aren’t doing enough for Jesus. We learn to greater recognize our sinfulness and yet the incredible promise that we can always “draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Heb. 4:16).

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