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      Title: Mexican Wedding Cookies (1989 Honorable Mention)
 Categories: Cookies, Holiday
      Yield: 48 Cookies
 
      1 c  Butter; softened
    1/2 c  Confectioners' sugar
      2 c  All-purpose flour
    1/4 ts Salt
      1 ts Vanilla
      1 c  Pecans; chopped
           Confectioners' sugar;
           - for garnish
 
  Preparation time: 15 minutes
  Baking time: 10 to 12 minutes per batch
  
  Heat oven to 350°F. Cream butter and sugar until smooth in mixer
  bowl. Add flour, salt, and vanilla and mix until blended. Mix in
  nuts.
  
  Roll teaspoon-size pieces of dough in a ball and put onto an
  ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until light golden, 10 to 12 minutes.
  The cookie bottoms should be golden brown. Roll cookies in
  confectioners' sugar immediately after baking.
  
  Recipe by Kathleen Shelton of Marengo

  Recipe FROM: Chicago Tribune 2nd annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie
  Contest, Dec 14, 1989
 
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