Mom'S Thumbprint Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup softened butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs, seperated
2 cups flour
1 cup chopped pecans
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
currant jelly or raspberry jelly

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350'.
Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl.
Add yolk and mix.
Add flour, beat until well blended.
In a small bowl, lightly beat egg white.
Form dough into small balls.
Dip each ball in egg white and roll in nuts, place on a cookie sheet.
Bake 5 minutes.
Make depression in each cookie, the back of a small measuring spoon works well.
Bake 10 more minutes.
Cool, add small spoonful of jelly in the depression of each cookie.
Substitutions: may use walnuts or almonds, instead of pecans.
May use icing instead of jelly.