** Percentage Daily Values are based on a
2000 calorie diet. *Nutritional Data from USDA SR21 Database. Nutritional information is estimated and may vary.
1. Preparation time: 25 minutes Baking time: 10 to 12 minutes Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream butter, sugar and egg. Stir in flour, vanilla and pecans.
3. Mix well by hand. Shape into balls about the size of walnuts, place on cookie sheets and flatten to about 1/8 inch.
4. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely and harden.
5. 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.
6. But most of the nuts had to be knocked from the branches with her long-handled broom.
7. Then she would spend hours stooped over those sheets, picking up the pecans and sorting the good ones from the black and hollow shells.
8. "When her daughter married and moved away, the nuts were carefully picked over, packaged and shipped 'up North.
9. ' Free time in the first week of December was always marked for shelling the pecans.
10. Sore hands and stiff backs were repaid with secret nibbling and promises of praline cookies for Christmas.
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Dietary Notes:
This recipe is low-sodium with 0mg per serving, low-fat with 0g per serving, low-saturated fat with 0g per serving, low-cholesterol with 0mg per serving and low-calorie with 0 per serving
Food Allergy Information:
This recipe contains potential food allergens and will effect people with Wheat, Egg, Butter, Gluten, Natural Sweeteners, Pecan allergies.
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