COOKIES & TREATS/ GRANDMA LOCKE'S SECRET PECAN RECIPE

BY BETTY LOCKE

Ingredients:

Preheat oven to 275 degrees

One (1) pound shelled pecans

1/4 lb. butter

1/4 tsp. salt

Melt butter in saucepan and mix in salt and pecans.

Spread mixture on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 30 minutes on middle rack in oven.

                                                                                                                 

Spread baked pecans on paper towels to dry.

Store in fancy tin lined with waxed paper or a 

plastic container.

Photo of Grandma Betty Locke with her five grandchildren

Joan says, "Mother-in-law, Betty Locke, made these delicious salted nuts every holiday.  She purchased pecans every year from a local fundraiser, big mammoth pecans straight from Georgia.  Everyone loved them, but she never shared the recipe, however, she always

shared several bags of plain pecans.  One year
 when I opened the bag of pecans from Grandma Locke,   there it was...the much treasured recipe for these fabulous nuts.  You can't eat just one of these gems!"