Day 12 Pecan Sandies

This cookie always reminds me of our family friend Carolyn ( pecan sandies were her favorite cookie).  She was the first woman advertising executive in Philly and just an all around neat person.  She lived next door to us in the house we lived in til I was six and I can still remember she and my Mom sitting in these round wicker chairs she had on her front porch and drinking Segram's smoking cigarettes and I guess solving the world's problems.   On my tenth birthday she gave me a bottle of champagne, starting me on my way to drunk baking.  She was one of a kind and I miss her still!


Pecan Sandies

• 1 cup butter softened
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup confectioners sugar
• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 1 cup pecans , finely chopped

1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
2. In mixer, beat butter, vanilla and 1/2 cup of the sugar until smooth
3. Mix in flour until just mixed and gradually add in pecans.
4. Take one tablespoon of dough and shape unto a crescent shape.They should be about 2 inches long.
5. Bake 45 minutes or until edges are slightly brown, rotating cookie sheets halfway through cooking.
6. Transfer to wire cooling racks, and sprinkle remaining sugar over them thru a seive.
7. Makes 3 dozen,