RECIPE: ICEBOX COOKIES - several hours or overnight prep - 375 F oven
  1 cup butter
  2 cups sugar
  2 eggs, well beaten
  4 cups flour
  1 teaspoon baking soda
  1 teaspoon cream of tartar
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  1 teaspoon vanilla
  2 cups nuts, chopped

  Cream butter and sugar; add eggs.  Add dry ingredients,
mixing well; then add vanilla and nuts.  Shape dough into 2
rolls, wrap in waxed paper and chill several hours or
overnight.  Slice thinly.  Bake on greased cookie sheet at 375
degrees for 5 to 7 minutes.  Remove at once to rack.
  "We have found that we enjoy just cutting thin pieces of
dough and eating them `as is.'  Saves on electricity!"
--Sherry and Truman Bolinger, Scottsdale AZ [from "How to feed
a Starving Artist Cookbook," Mountain Press Publishing Co.,
Missoula MT 1983; pg 241]

  [Back in my roommate bachelor days, Ruth Elaine (my platonic
roommate - never had I roomed with such a different person
from myself, but that's another raft of stories) made these
cookies from this cookbook I brought back with me from
Montana.  She liked them; I liked them; but Debbie (my wife,
I'm married now) doesn't like cookies with nuts, so I haven't
had them since.]

June 1991

Hazel Boston-Baden, P.O. Box 17522, Anaheim CA 92817.
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