Pecan Chews - Hannah Swensen

Pecan Chews - Joanne Fluke

Preheat oven at 350 F
rack in the middle position

1 cup butter (2 sticks, 1/2 pound)
3 cups brown sugar ***
4 eggs, beaten (with a fork is fine)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
3 tsps vanilla
2 cups chopped pecans
4 cups flour

Melt the butter and add brown sugar.
Mix well and let cool.
Add beaten eggs and mix.
Add salt, baking soda, vanilla, and nuts. Mix well.
Add flour and mix until flour is thoroughly distributed.


Form dough into balls with your fingers. (Make them
the size of a walnut with shell.)
Place them on a greased cookied sheet,
12 cookies to a standard sheet.

Press them down with a spatula.
(Spray it with Pam first, or grease it.)

Bake at 350 degrees F for 10 to 12 minutes.
Let cookies set up on cookie sheet for 1 minute,
then remove to a wire rack to finish cooling.

*** There's no need to keep brown sugar in stock.
It can be easily made with white sugar and molasses,
1/8 C molasses for every 3 C white sugar.
(That's how they manufacture it, really. And it will
save you from having to deal with all those lumps.)
Just add the molasses to the white sugar and stir until
thoroughly and evenly mixed in.