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Mom's Best Christmas Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1½ cups sugar
3 eggs
2 sticks margarine or butter softened
1½ tsp baking soda
1½ cream of tartar
4½ cups sifted flour (level)
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp vanilla or anise
2 tbsp milk
Directions:
Directions:
Mix all ingredients. Roll thin and cut into desired shapes. Bake at 350 º. Watch very closely while baking because they brown quickly.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
One of my sharpest childhood holiday memories is a kitchen filled with the scent of anise, and counters full of cookies waiting to be decorated. From the recipe collection of my mom, Helen Van Streader.

 

 

 

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