Nut Cookies I

Ingredients

 * 2 eggs
 * 1½ tablespoons boiling water
 * 3 ounces sugar (scant ½ cup)
 * 3 ounces flour (generous ¾ cup sifted flour)
 * 2 cups finely chopped walnuts
 * ½ teaspoon salt
 * flavoring

Directions

 * 1) First put the ingredients together just the same as for nut cake, and put on a pan with a pastry bag or a spoon.
 * 2) Break the eggs into a mixing bowl, add the salt.
 * 3) Set the bowl in a pan of boiling water.
 * 4) Beat the eggs with a dover egg beater till light.
 * 5) Then add boiling water.
 * 6) Beat again till light.
 * 7) Then add a little of the sugar, and beat.
 * 8) Then add a little more sugar, and beat.
 * 9) Continue adding a little sugar and beating till all the sugar is beaten in and the batter is very stiff and light.
 * 10) Remove the bowl from the water.
 * 11) Beat in the flavoring, then with a flat wire whip, called a "sensible egg whip," fold in the flour and nuts carefully and with as few strokes as possible, not sifting all the flour onto the batter at once, but adding on a little flour and nuts and folding it in with two or three strokes, then adding on a little more flour and nuts, and folding again.
 * 12) Continue till all the flour and nuts are folded in, but do not fold any longer than is necessary to mix in the flour.