Icebox Cookies(Make Now, Bake Later) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. butter or margarine
1 lb. dark brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. toasted pecans, chopped
5 c. plain flour
1/2 tsp. salt

Preparation

Cream butter and brown sugar until well blended.
Add the egg, vanilla and nuts; mix until well blended.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour and salt.
Add the flour mixture to the creamed butter and sugar, 2 cups at a time.
Blend until the dough is all the same color.
If the dough gets too stiff for a mixer, use a spoon to add the remaining cups of flour.
Keep mixing with the spoon until the flour is well blended in.
Divide dough into 4 equal pieces.