Recipe - Black Walnut Butter Cookies

Three fourths cup Butter; (no substitutes),
softened
1 cup Allpurpose flour
One half cup Cornstarch
One half cup Confectioner's sugar
One half cup Chopped black walnuts or
walnuts
Additional confectioners'
sugar

Notes Patsy Bell Hobson, Liberty, Missouri.COUNTRY MAGAZINE

In a mixing bowl, cream butter. Combine flour, cornstarch and sugar: add to
butter and mix well. Stir in walnuts. Roll in to Three fourths inch balls and place 1
inch apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 300 degrees for 2025 minutes
or until set. Cool on wire racks. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Yield: 6
dozen.

"This part of the SHOW ME STATE has an abundance of black walnuts, so these
cookies certainly represent my region of the country. I created

this recipe after a lot of experimentation…my family thinks they're a hit"!

Posted to recipeludigest by ncanty@juno.com (Nadia I Canty) on Mar 22,
1998