Recipe: Lemon Snowballs (cookies)

Lemon Snowballs (cookies)
From: Mary Jane Clabots, Military Lifestyle magazine Dec 90/Jan 91
Posted by: Bill McGimpsey
Makes 4 dozen

1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 tsp grated lemon rind
1 egg
3 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp water
1 3/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheets. Cream fist six ingredients together. Sift flour, baking soda, salt and cream of tartar together and add to creamed mixture along with nuts. Make 1-inch balls and place 1-inch apart on baking sheet.

Bake 10-15 minutes until cookies are light brown on bottom. Cool slightly and roll in powdered sugar.