Best Nut Cookies

Ingredients

 * 4 eggs
 * 1 cup sugar
 * 1½ cups pastry flour
 * 1 cup chopped walnuts
 * ½ teaspoon salt
 * ½ teaspoon vanilla

Directions

 * 1) First put together like superior nut cake, and put on an oiled and floured pan with a pastry bag or a spoon.
 * 2) Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs, beat the yolks stiff.
 * 3) Beat in the sugar, a little at a time, and beat till very stiff.
 * 4) Beat in the vanilla.
 * 5) Add the salt to the whites, and beat till stiff and dry.
 * 6) Pour the beaten yolk mixture onto the whites; sift over it some flour, and sprinkle over it some nuts, and fold them in.
 * 7) Sift on more flour and sprinkle on more nuts, continuing thus till all the flour and nuts are folded in.