National Pecan Cookie Day 2020

Once upon a time I knew of pecan sandies.

They were the only pecan cookie familiar to me and I would encounter them periodically and enjoy them with milk.

Nowadays there are many more varieties of pecan cookie which traverse the gamut of forms and flavors well beyond my old standard.

Today is National Pecan Cookie Day in the United States.

Held each 21st of September it is an observance of the baked goods featuring pecans which are available these days.

The word pecan is of Algonquin derivation meaning 'nut requiring a stone to crack'.

The nut is native to the southern and central United States and I have experience in groves of them and watching machines shell them producing bushel baskets of nut meats in perfect halves ...

Pecans like walnuts are relatives of the hickory nut and there are about a thousand varieties of them to be found internationally.

They are a very healthy foodstuff but I have been known to over indulge periodically ending up giving away gallon bags of them.

Happy National Pecan Cookie Day !