This is a favorite recipe of my mothers. When I found it, it was ragged and well worn. You could tell it was a cookie she made often. I remember having a big container of these cookies to take with us when we were packing to go camping. The recipe seems to have come from a bag of flour. Here's to you mom, I love you!
1 cup butter of margarine
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
3 large eggs
4 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts*
Directions:
Sift dry ingredients together. Melt together butter and shortening. Add sugars and mix well. Add eggs; beat together until batter is light in color. Stir in sifted dry ingredients, vanilla and nuts. Chill. Roll into one inch balls and bake on an uncreased cookie sheet at 375 for 7-10 minutes. Makes about 6 dozen cookies.
*In talking to my dad, we both remember her cookies not having any chopped walnuts in them, but instead having a pecan half on the top of each cookie. I think that is how she chose to make them.
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