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These have always been my favorite cookie.  They melt in your mouth.  I have been making these cookies for almost 50 years and they are always the first ones to disappear.

Russian Tea Cakes

1 cup butter softened

½ cup powdered sugar

2 - 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour

1 tsp vanilla

¾ finely chopped nuts

¼ tsp salt

Powdered sugar

Heat oven to 400.   Mix butter,  ½  cup sugar, vanilla together.    Sift in flour, nuts and salt until dough holds together.  Shape dough in balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake 10-12 minutes until set but not brown. Remove from cookie sheet and cool slightly on wire rack.  Roll warm cookies in powdered sugar.  Cool on wire rack.  Roll cookies in powdered sugar again.