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    Bachelor Buttons

    This recipe is more than 60 years old and a Blue Ribbon winner for me, at the County Fair


    List of Ingredients


    • 3/4 cup butter
    • 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
    • 1 egg,1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 2 1/2 cups flour
    • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
    • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
    • 1 pound pecan halves


    Instructions


    1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add egg and mix well
    2. In a separate bowl, put the soda, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg, stir well with a whisk, or sift.
    3. Add flour mixture to the creamed mixture. Mix well.
    4. Cool dough in refrigerator for 30 minutes
    5. Preheat oven to 350 F
    6. Make small balls of cookie dough,1 scant teaspoon. (They are to be bite size.)
    7. Put on ungreased cookie sheet about 1 1/2 inch apart.
    8. Press pecan half into the top of each cookie
    9. Bake for about 10 minutes, until barely brown around the edges.
    10. Cool on wire rack.


    Final Comments


    Store in air tight container.
 

 

 

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