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Great Grandma Bennett's Sugar Cookies




Source of Recipe


Great Grandma Bennett


Recipe Introduction


Old fashioned and soft. These are the cookies that we'd all come home from school and scoop up with a nice cold glass of milk.


List of Ingredients




1 cup soft oleo (I find Fleishman's original works well)
2 cups sugar
2 beaten eggs
5 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. soda
2 rounded tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup sour milk*
2 tsps. vanilla
1/4 tsp. nutmeg

*Sweet milk may be used by adding 1/2 tsp. vinegar to the milk.



Recipe



Sift all dry ingredients. Cream oleo, sugar and eggs until very light and smooth. Mix vanilla with milk. Add dry ingredients alternately with liquid. (Great Grandma says there's nothing like a wooden spoon when the dough becomes too stiff for the mixer. Add you know what? She was right!)

The dough should be soft, but stiff enough to roll out on a well floured wax paper. Cut cookies in desired shapes about 1/8" thick. Place on a greased cookie sheet (some good things have happened since Great Grandma's baking days. We have parchment paper, or silpats). Sprinkle sugar on cookies or leave plain and decorate with colored icing or fondant when done baking. Bake in a preheated 375º oven for about 10-15 minutes depending on your cookie shapes and sizes. Just watch until they are lightly browned on the edges.