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1989 1St Place: Melt Aways

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      Title: 1989 1ST PLACE: MELT AWAYS
 Categories: Cookies, Holiday
      Yield: 30 Servings
 
      1 c  Unsalted softened butter
    1/2 c  Sifted confectioners' sugar
      1 ts Vanilla
  2 1/4 c  Sifted cake flour
    1/4 ts Salt
    3/4 c  Chopped pecans
           Confectioners' sugar
 
  Preparation time: 20 minutes Baking time: 7 minutes per batch
  
   1. Heat oven to 450 degrees. Combine butter, confectioners' sugar and
  vanilla in mixing bowl.
  
   2. Sift flour and salt together and gradually stir into butter
  mixture. Stir in chopped pecans.
  
   3. Drop by heaping teaspoonsful onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake
  until peaks are very light brown, about 7 minutes. Transfer to
  cooling rack. While still warm (but not hot), use a sifter to
  sprinkle generously with confectioners' sugar.
  
   This 1989 first-place recipe comes from Chris Merrill of Elk Grove
  Village. The cookies are slightly sweet and very buttery, so they
  melt in your mouth. from the Chicago Tribune second annual Food Guide
  Holiday Cookie Contest December 14, 1989
 
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