Do not let these cookies decieve you by their name. They do not have ice cream in them, but they were made to be eaten with ice cream, most likely vanilla. These cookies would have been small and would have been a nice accompaniment to a scoop of ice cream for dessert.
Helen's Walnut Ice Cream Cookies
1/2 cup butter*
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Cream butter and sugar. Add and vanilla and beat well. Sift flour and salt and blend into mixture. Stir in walnuts. Drop by tsp. onto cookie sheet*. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool. Makes 3 1/2-4 dozen cookies.
*Use room temperature butter
*Lightly grease the cookie sheet before baking.
*These cookies were traditionally served with ice cream, hence the name.
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