Cookie Nut Crust

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup butter, softened (or margarine)
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar, loosely packed
• 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts (pecans, black-walnuts or butternuts)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl, combine the flour and baking soda.
• 2 add the butter, brown sugar, walnuts and vanilla.
• 3 blend well.
• 4 press the mixture, a small amount at a time, into a 9-inch pie plate, building up the sides and fluting the edge.
• 5 cover the fluting with a strip of aluminum foil to prevent overbowning.