1986 Winner: Praline Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients : 1986 Winner: Praline Cookies Recipe
1/2 cup Butter
1 1/2 cups Packed brown sugar
1 Egg
1 1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Chopped pecans
Preparation time: 25 minutes Baking time: 10 to 12 minutes
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, sugar and egg. Stir in
flour, vanilla and pecans. Mix well by hand. Shape into balls about the
size of walnuts, place on cookie sheets and flatten to about 1/8 inch. 2.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until brown. Remove from oven and allow to
cool completely and harden. Winner Jean McGree of Flossmoor "bores
everyone," she says, with this family tale of Christmas praline cookies:
"Since the time Mom had been a little girl, each November Grandma would
surround her back yard pecan tree with sheets to catch the falling nuts.
But most of the nuts had to be knocked from the branches with her
long-handled broom. Then she would spend hours stooped over those sheets,
picking up the pecans and sorting the good ones from the black and hollow
shells. "When her daughter married and moved away, the nuts were
carefully picked over, packaged and shipped 'up North.' Free time in the
first week of December was always marked for shelling the pecans. Sore
hands and stiff backs were repaid with secret nibbling and promises of
praline cookies for Christmas. "Soon, I'll start looking for a package
from Great-Grandma in South Carolina. Then, as we crack the pecans, I can
retell the 'pecan story' to Michael and Ann, who know that Santa always
looks for pralines on Christmas Eve." from the Chicago Tribune annual Food
Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 4, 1986
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