Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• y2 cup milk or water
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Warm the mixing bowl, cream butter, add sugar, then egg.

2. 2

   Beat together, sift flour and baking powder, and add alternately with milk or water.

3. 3

   Divide dough, flavor half with vanilla or lemon, and the other half with chocolate or cocoa.

4. 4

   Roll out and cut into shapes, then bake in a hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Efficiency in home-making and first-aid to good cooking (1915) by Robertson, Georgia, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 cup butter. A little salt. x/2 cup sugar. % cup water. 1 teaspoon soda. About 4 cups flour. Scald the molasses, take from stove, add the butter, sugar, ginger and salt; when cool add the water; sift the soda in about 3 cups of the flour; add to the above mix- ture, using the other cup of flour, or more if needed. Roll out a portion at a time on a floured board till about one- eighth of an inch in thickness ; bake in a moderate oven or they will burn, as they are made with molasses. Note. — By using a little less flour the batter may be dropped from a spoon on to the buttered pan. This saves much trouble and time and they are equally nice. SUGAR COOKIES. ]/2 cup butter. y2 cup milk or water. 1 cup sugar. 2 cups flour. 1 egg. 2 teaspoons baking powder

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