Ingredients:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1/2 cup (1 stick) margarine
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons water
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Powdered sugar
Instructions:
Cream butter and margarine to soften, then cream with sugar. Mix in water, vanilla, flour and nuts. Chill 3 or 4 hours.
Form dough into long rolls, 12 inch across. Cut into 3-inch lengths and shape to look like Longhorns! Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 15 minutes at 325°, do not brown cookies.
Remove from sheet, cool slightly and dip in powdered sugar.
Yield: 4 dozen.
Submitted by Evelyn Brown Squyres, BA ’51, Tyler, TX