Instructions: Cream butter; then cream in sugar and salt until light and fluffy. Add nuts and vanilla, blend in flour gradually and mix thoroughly. Shape into balls or crescents, using walnut-sized lump of dough for each. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 325 degrees for 15 - 20 minutes, until bottom is just beginning to brown. Cool slightly, then roll in more powdered sugar.

These cookies have many names: butterballs, Russian teacakes, etc. In New Mexico, they are "polvorones" which is Spanish for "dust" balls".

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