Lost Pecan Crispies

By Addie

Want a simple-to-make, delicious-to-eat old-fashioned and, yet unusual, cookie? Then try these pecan crispies. For some reason, these gems didn't make the cookie hit parade.

Is it because they lack the novelty of the chocolate chip, the homeyness of the oatmeal or the silly name of the snickerdoodle? We may never know, but that's no reason to let these almost elegant sweets -- with their wonderfully chewy (and first) and (later) crispy texture -- languish on a yellowed recipe card.

I do hope some of my readers will take a stab at these "lost" cookies. They deserve to be rediscovered and eaten in the 21st century.

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 2 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup chopped pecans (chopped fine)

Preparation

Step 1

Mix softened butter with brown sugar and combine til light and fluffy. Add eggs and mix well. Meantime, combine flour, salt and baking soda, blend well, and add to butter mixture. Combine. Fold in chopped pecans.
Drop from spoon on cookie sheet lined with parchment. Bake at 350 about 10 minutes until very lightly browned.