Hi, I was curious to compare your recipe with my grandmothers recipe. The main difference is hers has orange juice in it (though not a lot). My ingredient list is 1/2 C walnuts, 2 eggs, 1/2 C sugar, 1/2 C oil, 1/4 C OJ, flour until the right consistency (approx 3 cups but she never measured it, and I don't either), and baking powder. As with yours they are double baked. Although yours looks delicious I think I'll always make hers - when I do it's like she's in the kitchen with me and the taste of the cookies always takes me back as well. I learned to make the cookies when I was a young teenager but have eaten them all of my life. She brought the recipe with her from eastern Europe around 1910. Whenever we went to visit her and my grandfather, the first thing my brothers and sister and I did after saying hello was to check the oven. Either these cookies or Mun cookies (poppy seed cookies) were always in there. They both remain my very favorite cookies. Susan, that's how it should be - you're carrying forward a long family tradition. Nothing better than that. Tell me, what did she add to them? Was it almonds? - PJH

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