Butter Walnut Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 cup finely ground walnuts

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
In a mixing bowl, beat your butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and salt until light and fluffy.
In another bowl combine flour and finely ground walnuts.
Little by little add flour mixture to butter mixture; mix until thoroughly combined.
Cover your dough and refrigerate it for at least 1 hour.
Take a quarter of your dough at a time out of your refrigerator, and roll it out to a quarter inch thickness.
With a lightly floured glass rim, or any other desired shape you wish to use, and cut your cookies out and place on an parchment lined cookie sheet and bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes until they are just lightly browned.
Remove the tray from the oven and immediately remove the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.