french lace cookies

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Recipe

• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). prepare cookie sheets by covering with parchment.
• in a medium saucepan, heat the corn syrup, shortening and brown sugar over medium heat. stir constantly until the mixture comes to a boil. in a small bowl toss together the flour and nuts; stir into the saucepan mixture, and remove from the heat.
• keep the batter warm by setting over a pan of hot water. drop by teaspoonfuls the prepared cookie sheets. cookies should be at least 3 inches apart. bake for about 5 minutes, until the center of the cookie is set. let the cookies set before removing from the baking sheets.