Pecan Shortbread Cookies Recipe


Ingredients

3/4 lb butter
1 cup confectioners sugar
3 cup flour, sifted
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup pecans, finely chopped


Directions

Cream butter and confectioners' sugar together until light.

Sift flour and salt together and add to creamed mixture. Add vanilla
and blend thoroughly. Add pecans.

Gather dough into a ball, wrap in wax paper, and chill until firm.

Roll out chilled dough to 1/2" thickness. Using a cookie cutter, cut
out cookies. Sprinkle tops with granulated sugar. Place cut out
cookies on ungreased cookie sheet and refrigerate for 45 minutes
before baking.

Preheat oven to 325F. Bake for 20 minutes or until just starting to
color lightly; cookies should not brown at all. Cool on rack.


Servings: 2 dozen

 

 

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Categories: Bread; Breads; Cookie; Nut; Pecan


The History of Recipes

Transcribed cooking instructions as a concept can be found back into ancient history, in fact as far back into recorded history as the ancient Egyptians, and quite possibly further than that. In practice though, these, ancient records were just simple hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for meal preparation.

In fact, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to food historians are a few clay tablets in Sumerian which describe the preparation of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who tried it feel `exhilarated, wonderful and blissful`.

Later, we find two interesting recipe books dating from the 1300s - a book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are somewhat misleading tho`, these have no connection with the indian curry that is popular today, but rather descriptions of the types of food cooked for the rich people of the time.

For the decades that followed, the powerful and rich tried to serve up the most exotic banquets, and because of this chefs and their recipes could command a high salary. However, it wasn`t until the 19th century that fine cooking and recipe collections really came of age. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated years of their lives to assembling, trying out, and publishing recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day.

By the time we get to the 1900s, cookbooks are increasing in popularity mostly due to higher levels of literacy, increased leisure time and having more money to spend.

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