Lillian's Cresents
- Title
- Lillian's Cresents
- Subject
- butter
- powdered sugar
- flour
- vanilla
- nut meats
- Description
- Lillian's Cresents
1/4 lb Butter softened and creamed
with 2 rounded tbsp. Powdered sugar
Add 1 cup flour sifted before measuring
1 tsp Vanilla
1/2 cup nut meats (chopped)
Shape with fingers into small cakes
and form into crescents. Grease cookie
tin and bake at 300° until very light
Back:
brown. Remove from oven and roll
in powdered sugar immediately.
Makes about 30 cookies.
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# Lillian's Cresents
## Ingredients
- 1/4 lb butter, softened
- 2 rounded Tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 cup flour, sifted before measuring
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup nut meats, chopped
- Powdered sugar (for rolling)
## Instructions
1. Cream butter with 2 rounded Tbsp powdered sugar.
2. Add sifted flour, vanilla, and chopped nut meats.
3. Shape with fingers into small cakes and form into crescents.
4. Grease a cookie tin and bake at 300° until very light brown.
5. Remove from oven and roll in powdered sugar immediately.
6. Makes about 30 cookies. - Creator
- Paula Guffey
- Source
- RCA0003 - VTG LG Wood Recipe Box Dove Tail w/Metal Hinges Full Of Recipes & Handwritten (eBay)
- Date
- 1950s
- Contributor
- Lillian
- Rights
- Personal/Family
- Format
- Handwritten recipe card
- Identifier
- RCA0003-20260513-0086
- Coverage
- Indiana, US
Dublin Core
Citation
Paula Guffey, “Lillian's Cresents,” Recipe Card Archive, accessed October 22, 2026, https://www.recipecardarchive.com/items/show/667.