Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies

old-fashioned sugar cookies

AmericanOtherEasy30 minBy Northstar

Ingredients

Servings
4
  • 2 cup of all-purpose flour, sifted
  • 0.5 tsp of baking soda
  • 0.5 tsp of salt
  • 0.5 cup of soft shortening
  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 1 egg yoke
  • 0.5 cup of buttermilk
  • 0.5 tsp of vanilla
  • 1 egg white, beaten stif f
  • 2 0.5 dozen cookies.
  • 50

Instructions

  1. 1

    Sift together flour, salt, soda. Cream shortening, suagr, and egg yoke until fluffy. Mix in flour mixture

  2. 2

    alternately with buttermilk, then stir in vanilla. Fold in the egg whitess tj ubefore baking. Drop by

  3. 3

    rounded tablespoons 3 inches apart onto a greased cookie sheet. Flatten to 1/2 inch thickness with

  4. 4

    a fork in a cross pattern and sprinkle with a pinch of sugar. Bake 20 mins. until golden brown. Makes

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