Apricot Strips

Ingredients:

2 bars butter
2 cups dry apricots
2 2/3 cups flour
1 teaspoon royal
1/2 cup sugar
1 2/3 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp vanilla
4 eggs
1 cup chopped nuts
Pulverized sugar
Picks of salt

Preparation:

Grease one medium mold(for two pounds)
Preheat the furnace to 175ºC (350ºF)

Cover with water the apricots and cook until making convex.
Strain them and chop them finely.

Stir 2 cups of flour with the granulated sugar and butter.
Spill into the mold.
Cover it with aluminium paper and place something heavy like beans.
Bake by 25 minutes until gilding.

Separate the rest of the flour, the salt, the royal, the brown sugar, eggs, the nuts and the apricots.
Stir well and cover the pastry, already toasted.
Bake again until gilding.

Let cool.
Cut in strips and sift to them raise the pulverized sugar.