Arkansas Cooks

Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup soft butter
½ cup sugar
1 egg
3 t vanilla
3 cups flour
½ t baking powder

Preparation

Mix the first 3 ingredients thoroughly. Stir in vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder and mix into creamy mixture. Chill dough for firmness. Roll chilled dough on a floured surface, very thin (⅛ inch). Cut into desired shapes. Bake at 425 degrees until delicately brown (5-7 min.). Allow to cool.

Icing

Ingredients

1 lb box of powdered sugar
1 stick of soft butter
1 t vanilla
Dash of salt
Pet milk (start with ⅔ cup and work your way up)

Preparation

Mix thoroughly with pet milk until it is the correct consistency. Icing may be tinted with food coloring. After icing cookies allow them to sit until icing dries before wrapping or sealing in a container.

Ingredients

1 lb Jimmy Dean’s Sage Sausage
1 – 8oz. Package of Cream Cheese
1 can Rotel

Preparation

Brown sausage and drain well. Add Cheese and Rotel and melt. Serve warm with tortilla chips. Enjoy

Ingredients

1 egg white
1 T of water
1 cup sugar
1 t salt
1 T cinnamon
1 lb. Pecan halves

Preparation

Heat Oven to 250º. Beat egg whites & water until frothy but not stiff. Pour over pecans and stir until the nuts are coated. Mix together sugar, salt, & cinnamon then combine with the pecans. Spread mixture on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Back 45 min stirring every 15 min. Watch that they do not get too brown. Yummy!

Ingredients

1 ½ cups granulated sugar
½ cup sherry
½ t cinnamon
2-3 cups of walnut halves

Preparation

Boil sugar and sherry to 240º on a candy thermometer or until a little mixture in cold water forms a soft ball. Remove from heat. Add cinnamon & walnuts. Stir until nuts are coated. Turn out onto a well-buttered cookie sheet. Make sure you separate them as much as you can.  Let them set up and harden a bit. This should not take too long, 1 hour or so. These are great with a cheese tray after dinner.