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Charleston Recipe OLD-FASHIONED PRALINE COOKIES Yield: 2 ½ dozen Ingredients 3 tablespoons butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 egg, well beaten 1 cup pecan halves
Instructions Melt butter and blend in sugar, add egg, nuts, flour, vanilla and mix well. Prepare a well-greased heavy cookie sheet. Drop 1/2 teaspoon of batter for each cookie, placing them 5 inches apart. Bake about 10 minutes in a moderate oven, then loosen edges of each cookie with wide spatula and lift onto wire cake rack to cool and crisp.
Recipe reprinted with permission from the Junior League of Charleston’s Charleston Receipts (The Junior League of Charleston, South Carolina, 1950).
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