Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
1. Mix together shortening, sugar and eggs.
2. Stir in milk and vanilla.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and stir into dough.
4. Chill dough for at least 4 hours.
5. With rolling pin, roll dough thin and cut into desired shapes.
6. Place on lightly greased cookie sheet and bake 5 to 7 minutes at 350 degrees.
Note: To make a sweet, decorative frosting, mix half-and-half with powdered sugar in a cereal bowl, stirring until it gets to a spreading consistency. Then add food coloring and ice cookies.
Source: "First Edition Betty Crocker Cookbook," published in 1950.
2. Stir in milk and vanilla.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and stir into dough.
4. Chill dough for at least 4 hours.
5. With rolling pin, roll dough thin and cut into desired shapes.
6. Place on lightly greased cookie sheet and bake 5 to 7 minutes at 350 degrees.
Note: To make a sweet, decorative frosting, mix half-and-half with powdered sugar in a cereal bowl, stirring until it gets to a spreading consistency. Then add food coloring and ice cookies.
Source: "First Edition Betty Crocker Cookbook," published in 1950.
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Date
February 19, 2005
Categories
Cookies