Empty Tomb Cookies

Total Time: 8 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 8 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 cup whole pecans, in a plastic baggie
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 3 egg whites
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300 degrees--you must do it now. also, gather a cooking mallet, kitchen mixer, masking tape and bible.
• 2 read john 19:1-3 ~ jesus was beaten for our sins; beat the nuts with a cooking mallet; set aside.
• 3 read john 19:28-30 - jesus drank something like vinegar (gall), sniff the fragrance, dip finger in and taste, too; place the vinegar in a mixing bowl.
• 4 read john 10:10-11 - egg whites symbolize jesus' holy, innocent life; add whites to the bowl with the vinegar.
• 5 read luke 23:27 - the bitter tears of the women; taste a few grains, remember your own sins; add the salt to the bowl.
• 6 read psalm 34:8 and john 3:16 - sweet salvation! taste and see; add to the bowl.
• 7 crank up the mixer and let it go while you read from isaiah 1:18 and john 3:1-3; let the mixer go for about 12-15 minutes; this needs to be very stiff!
• 8 read matthew 27:57-60 - fold the nuts into the egg-sugar mixture; this symbolizes the rocks in the garden.
• 9 using a scoop or knife & spoon, drop by spoon into mounds (to resemble a rocky tomb); put into the oven and turn it off!
• 10 read matthew 27:65-66 - the tomb is sealed; use two pieces of tape (5-6 inches long) to "seal" the door edges (symbolically).
• 11 read john 16:20 & 22 - consider these passages, then go to bed!
• 12 next morning: read matthew 28:1-9 - jesus is risen! behold--the empty tomb! unseal the oven door, take out the cookies, break or bite one in half -- it should be hollow inside---empty---just like the tomb!
• 13 he is risen! he is risen indeed! hallelujah!