Crunchy Pecan Bars - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 large egg, separated
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon, Ground
1 1/2 cups pecans, Sliced
sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 275\u00b0F (135\u00b0C). Butter a 15 x 10 jelly-roll pan.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add egg yolk and vanilla; mix well.
In a medium-size bowl, mix flour and cinnamon.
Sfir flour mixture into creamed mixture, using hands to mix stiff dough, if necessary.
Spread evenly in buttered jelly-roll pan.
In a small bowl, beat egg white just until well mixed; spread over dough.
Sprinkle pecans evenly over top, then sprinkie lightly with sugar.
Bake in preheated oven about 1 hour or until set. Cut in 2 x 1\" bars or diamond shapes while still very warm.
Remove cookies from baking sheet to wire racks and cool.
Cookies become crisp as they cool.