Pecan Ice-Box Cookies

Recipe from: Mom, Erin Kay Smith Ferguson, who received from Mimi, Jennie Miller Ferguson (1960's)

1 cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

3 eggs

3 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. soda

2 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 cups broken or chopped pecans

Cream butter and sugars together.  Add eggs and beat well.  Measure flour and add cinnamon, salt, and pecans.  Add this to butter, sugar, and egg mixture, kneading into a stiff dough.  Mold into rolls and refrigerate about 24 hours.  Cut into thin slices and bake in 425˚ oven.