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walnut icebox cookies

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Recipe by
Heidi Hoerman
Hingham, MA

This is my recipe is from my paternal grandparents and was always called "Mother and Dad Horman's Ice Box Cookies" in our family. No, I didn't just mispell my last name. It was whoever filled out my father's birth certificate who did it! The card in the recipe box has lots of annotations by my father and they are included here in quotes. I haven't made this recipe as an adult so I'm just including all the annotations here.

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Ingredients For walnut icebox cookies

  • 1/2 lb
    melted butter (or 1/2 butter and 1/2 crisco)
  • 1 1/4 c
    sugar (more sugar walt says) "1 2/3 cups good"
  • 2
    eggs, beaten
  • 1/2 tsp
    salt
  • vanilla to taste "1 tsp."
  • 2 3/4 c
    flour
  • good 1/2 tsp
    baking soda
  • 1 c
    nutmeats

How To Make walnut icebox cookies

  • 1
    Form in loaf with hands on floured paper
  • 2
    "Refrigerate - put back in the refrig. between batches"
  • 3
    Cut thin and bake 400F [crossed out, 350F crossed out, 325F crossed out] "375F" 10 "to 12" minutes.
  • 4
    "Don't put too close together on cookie sheet. Release from cookie sheet while still hot. Remove from cookie sheet when firm."

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