Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup butter -- melted
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup cognac
• 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
• 1 1/2 cups apricot marmalade

Instructions

• Sift flour into bowl, and mix in baking powder.
• Add butter, egg yolk, sugar, cognac, and lemon peel; and knead to make a fairly soft dough. Separate into 2 parts.
• Roll one out into a fairly thick crust; place in a square pan.
• Break off a piece of dough from the remaining half and roll between your palms into a coil to fit around the crust.
• Wet the edge of the crust with a little water and gently press the coil around the edges, so it adheres to the crust, and against the sides of the pan; shape with the fingers to form the side crust.
• Spread the marmalade over the bottom crust.
• Shape additional coils, each about as thick as your little finger, from the rest of the dough, and lay them on the marmalade in a crisscross latticework pattern.
• Join to the crust with a little water.
• Bake in preheated 300 F. oven for 30 to 40 min.
• Cool and cut into squares.