Ingredients
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup confectioners sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans
Directions
Heat oven to 400. Mix thoroughly butter, sugar and vanilla. Work in flour, salt and nuts until dough holds together. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased baking sheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set but not brown. While warm, roll in confectioners sugar. Cool. Roll in sugar again.
Makes 4 dozen
10 oz ground almonds
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
pinch of salt
1 cup of plain flour
1/2 cup of pine nuts, chopped
granulated sugar
Cream butter and sugar until very soft; mix in the ground almonds, salt, vanilla and flour. The dough will be rather firm.
Cut off pieces about the size of prunes and roll them into little cigar-shaped pieces about 1/2-inch thick. Roll these in the chopped pine nuts and bend them into a half-moon shape.
Place these 1-inch apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 350F for 15 to 20 minutes. The crescents should not be browned. Cool about 5 minutes, then strew with a little granulated sugar.
