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Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes |
Ready In: 35 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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My mother used to use these in one of her lessons, when she was a Home Economics teacher in the '60s. Ingredients:
1 cup softened butter |
1/2 cup packed brown sugar |
2 eggs, seperated |
2 cups flour |
1 cup chopped pecans |
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional) |
currant jelly or raspberry jelly |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350'.
2. Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl.
3. Add yolk and mix.
4. Add flour, beat until well blended.
5. In a small bowl, lightly beat egg white.
6. Form dough into small balls.
7. Dip each ball in egg white and roll in nuts, place on a cookie sheet.
8. Bake 5 minutes.
9. Make depression in each cookie, the back of a small measuring spoon works well.
10. Bake 10 more minutes.
11. Cool, add small spoonful of jelly in the depression of each cookie.
12. Substitutions: may use walnuts or almonds, instead of pecans.
13. May use icing instead of jelly.
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