Categories: Cookies, Shaped 
      Yield: 36 cookies 
  
      1 c  Butter or margarine; soft 
    1/2 c  Sifted confectioners' sugar 
      2 ts Vanilla 
      2 c  Sifted all-purpose flour 
    1/2 ts Salt 
      1 c  Quaker Oats, uncooked 
           -- (quick or old-fashioned) 
    1/2 c  Chopped pecans 
           Confectioners' sugar 
  
  Beat butter until creamy.  Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. 
  Blend in vanilla.  Sift together flour and salt.  Add to creamed mixture; 
  blend well.  Stir in oats and pecans. 
   
  Shape to form crescents, balls or logs.  Place on ungreased cooky sheets. 
  Bake in preheated slow oven (325 F.) about 30 minutes.  While warm, sift 
  confectioners' sugar generously over cookies. 
   
  Source: Our Favorites for family and friends 
  Reprinted with permission from The Quaker Oats Company 
  Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias