Goodie dessert

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My mother, Dorothy Sargent Boureau, wrote a cookbook, Stove Stories. She believed that food and family histories went together.

MELT-A-WAYS 

And melt in your mouth, they do. A recipe from Betty of Nebraska and chicken-fried steak fame. Her daughters insists on these of the holidays and gets them too.

• 1 cup (2sticks) butter
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp. water
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• Powdered sugar for coating

Melt butter in small pan.

Remove from heat. 

Stir in 1/4 cup powdered sugar, water and vanilla. 

Gradually blend in flour, then pecans to make pastry-like dough. 

Pinch off dough a teaspoon at a time. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. 

Bake in slow oven 300° for 20 minutes of until delicately golden. 

Remove from cookie sheet, dust with powdered sugar while warm