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Recipe for "snobol-cookies"

NAME

     SNOBOL-COOKIES - Nut-butter  holiday  cookie  with  a  sugar
     coating
     Great for the holidays when sampling lots of cookies.   Just
     pop one in your mouth and enjoy!

INGREDIENTS (4 dozen)

     200 g     all-purpose flour
     2.5 ml    salt
     170 g     softened butter or margarine
     100 g     sugar
     1         egg
     5 ml      vanilla extract
     100 g     chopped walnuts
               confectioner's sugar

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Preheat oven to 175 deg. C.
          (2)  Grease cookie sheets lightly with  unsalted  shor-
               tening.
          (3)  Sift together flour and salt.
          (4)  Work butter in a bowl until creamy.
          (5)  Add sugar and beat until well blended.
          (6)  Add egg and vanilla and beat well.
          (7)  Gradually add sifted dry ingredients, beating well
               after each addition.  Stir in walnuts.
          (8)  Shape dough into small balls  about  3/4  inch  in
               diameter.
          (9)  Place balls  about  2  inches  apart  on  prepared
               cookie  sheets.   Bake  12 - 15  minutes  or until
               lightly browned.
          (10) Roll balls  in  confectioners  sugar  while  still
               warm.  Roll again in sugar when cooled.

NOTES

     Store these in a tight container.  Powered sugar makes  this
     recipe a little messy.

RATING

     Difficulty:  moderate  (dexterity   required).    Time:   30
     minutes.  Precision: approximate measurement OK.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Iris Niswander
     AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH, USA.
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