Herself's Recipes

Grandma’s Collected Recipes, Brown Sugar Walnut Cookies

It is recommended that these cookies be served on the side with ice cream or pudding.

1 cup butter
2 cups light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup walnuts, chopped small, but not too fine

Cream butter and sugar and eggs
Add vanilla

In a separate bowl mix salt, flour, baking soda and baking powder
Now add flour mix to butter mix, mixing as you go
Blend well

Add walnuts
Roll into two separate rolls and wrap in wax paper
Refrigerate overnight

Slice rolls very thin, wafer size
Bake on ungreased cookie sheets at 375 for 7 to 10 minutes until golden brown

This recipe won the weekly recipe prize in the ‘Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Living’ part of the paper, most likely the ‘Record American’. There is no hint as to the date on this clipping.

This is an excellent sauce for green beans, It also goes well over pork chops. Walnuts are rich in omega3 fatty acids, benevolent fats that combat heart disease. They are one of the few plants in which these fats occur.

1/2 cup walnuts, chopped well in a food processor or blender
1/4 cup Parmesan or Romano cheese, grated
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 Tablespoon butter, melted or softened.

Mix all ingredients well and mix with boiled, drained green beans or serve on top of pork chops.