Christmas Recipes 4

PECAN FINGERS
3/4 cup butter 1/8 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons powdered 2 tablespoons vanilla
sugar 1 cup chopped pecans
2 cups sifted pastry flour

Blend the butter into the sugar, add the sifted flour and salt and mix thoroughly. Add the vanilla and nuts. Shape into “'fingers” Bake about twenty minutes in a moderate oven (275° F.). This makes about three dozen fingers.

NUT COOKIES
1 1/2 cups brown sugar 2 tablespoons freshly made
1 cup butter coffee
2eggs, well beaten 2 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup seedless raisins
1 cup chopped nuts, black or walnuts

Cream the butter and sugar, add the eggs, then the soda dissolved in the coffee. Mix, then add the flour, raisins and nuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls on a greased baking sheet. Bake ten to fifteen minutes in a hot oven (400° F.). This makes about three dozen cookies.

NUT COOKIE BALLS
1/2 cup butter 1 cup sifted cake flour
2 tablespoons sugar 1 cup finely chopped pecans
1 teaspoon vanilla or walnuts
Powdered sugar

Cream the butter, add the sugar and blend well. Add the vanilla then the flour, mix, stir in the nuts. Roll the dough into small balls and place them on a greased cookie sheet. Bake in a moderate oven (300° F.) for forty to forty-five minutes. Remove from the oven and while they are still hot, roll them in powdered sugar. When cooled, roll them again in sugar. This makes about forty cookies.

ALMOND COOKIES
1 cup shortening 2 egg yolks, beaten
1 cup sugar 2 cups sifted flour
2 eggs, beaten 1/2 pound almonds, unblanched and ground

Cream the shortening and sugar together, add the eggs and the yolks, then gradually add the flour, mixing well. Beat in the nuts and then mix and shape into one big roll. Chill overnight in the refrigerator. Slice and bake on a greased cookie sheet in a moderate oven (325° F.) about twenty-five minutes. This makes four dozen small cookies.


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