This recipe can be used to make cut-out cookies or you can roll teaspoons of dough into balls, dip in sugar, and then flatten with the bottom of a water glass dipped in sugar. I like to use an old sherbet glass that belonged to my grandmother because it has a pretty pattern on the bottom. See you what you can find in your cupboard to make pretty sugar cookies. . .<\/p>\n
– 1\/2 cup of butter, margarine, or other shortening
\n– 1 cup sugar
\n– 2 eggs
\n– 1 tablespoon of cream (or Half & Half)
\n– 2 1\/4 cups of flour
\n– 1 1\/2 teaspoons of baking powder
\n– 1\/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
\n– 1 1\/2 teaspoons of lemon extract (I have also used lemon juice; if you want a less lemony taste to the cookies, use lemon juice)<\/p>\n
Cream together shortening (butter or margarine), sugar, eggs and cream. Mix in the dry ingredients and the lemon extract or the lemon juice. Work the dough with your hands for a minute before rolling out the cookies.<\/p>\n
Bake on an ungreased baking sheet at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
A single recipe makes about three dozen cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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