Nana Andy's Sugar Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. milk or cream
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1-3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp. vanilla
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Directions:Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy, and then beat in eggs, milk and vanilla.
In a separate bowl, sift together all dry ingredients and then add to butter/sugar mixture. Mix well.
At this point, chill dough, roll out and cut into shapes. Place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375º for 7 minutes.
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Omit 1/4 cup flour and drop cookies onto a lightly greased cookie sheet, either from a spoon or from a cookie press. Bake at 375º for 7 minutes. |
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Notes: Each Christmas, Nana Andy made many, many batches of these cookies. She allowed me to choose the shapes and colors of the cookies (green Christmas trees and white Scotty dogs were my favorites). She also taught me how to operate the cookie press, frost the cookies, and decorate them with sugars and candies. The finished cookies were stored in crocks in our "fruit cellar" for holiday enjoyment or for gift giving.
Another of Nana Andy's baking projects at Christmas was fruitcakes. I'll spare you the recipe because, frankly, I don't care for fruitcake, but it's fun to remember that my job was to decorate the tops of the cakes with almonds and candied fruits. The finished cakes were wrapped in rum-soaked cheese cloth and stored in crocks to "mellow."
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