Festive Cherryettes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons vanilla (Yes Tablespoons)
2 cups flour
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
20 candied cherries

Preparation

Blend together shortening, butter, salt, sugar and vanilla.
Add flour and pecans and mix into a soft dough.
Chill.
Preheat oven to 325\u00b0 F and grease cookie sheets.
Measure out level tablespoonfuls of dough and roll between palms of hands to form round balls.
Place on greased cookie sheets.
Press a little indentation in center in each cookie with a thimble and put half of cherry on top.
Bake in preheated 325 oven for 25 minutes.