1986 Winner Praline Cookies

Title:
1986 Winner Praline Cookies

Yield:
36 Servings

Categories:
Cookies,
Holiday




Ingredients:





   1/2 c  Butter


 1 1/2 c  Packed brown sugar


     1    Egg


 1 1/2 c  Flour


     1 ts Vanilla


     1 c  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


 Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #340


 


 From: Linda Place 


 


 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 11:32:57 +0000