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cutout - Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies

Source of Recipe

from a Reminisce magazine reader, July/Aug. 2002 issue


List of Ingredients

1/4 cup softened butter or margarine
3/4 cup white granulated sugar + additional
3 egg
1 teaspoon milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups self rising flour
...(or place 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
...and 3/4 teaspoon salt in a 2 cup measuring
...cup and add flour to measure 1 cup. Then
...just add another 1/2 cup of flour to that.)


Recipe

Preheat oven to 375. Lightly grease baking sheets.
Use a small mixing bowl to cream the butter and sugar together.
Beat in the egg, milk and vanilla.
Add the flour and mix well.
Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/8" thickness.
Cut with 3 inch cookie cutters dipped in flour.
Sprinkle with additional sugar.
Place 1 inch apart on baking sheets. Reroll scraps, if desired.
Bake for 7 - 8 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
Remove to wire racks to cool.
Makes 1 1/2 dozen.