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Aunt Mary McNamee Springman's sugar cookies Recipe

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Category:
Category:
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup shortening (Aunt Mary used lard, which I believe gave her cookies their distinctive taste)
1tbsp. soda
1 cup flour
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
2 C flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
Directions:
Directions:
Heat oven to 350
cream (mix) the 2 cups sugar and 2 eggs
Add shortening, 1 tbsp. soda dissolved in 1/2 cup of buttermilk
add 1 C flour and the other 1/12 C buttermilk.

sift , .dry ingredients together. add to first mixture with 1 tsp. vanilla.

Add enough more flour to make mixture stiff enough to roll out. Cut into circles, sprinkle with sugar and bake at 350º until light brown on bottom
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
2 doz.
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
30 minutes (after the first time)
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
this recipe, which seems complicated, has been in the McNamee family for generations. Aunt Mary baked them often, mixed them with her hands (this was in the days before electric mixers), AND NEVER MEASURED ANYTHING, yet the cookies were always perfect.. It was difficult for her to dictate her recipe to my mother, because she didn't use a recipe She kept a crock of these cookies in her unheated pantry, and as I grew older, every time I visited her, she had a bag of them ready for me. After I married, I was VERY reluctant to share this prize even with my husband. Unfortunately, she did not live long enough to ply my children with these-the BEST sugar cookies in the whole world. God Bless her.

 

 

 

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