Frances Ford's Drop Sugar Cookies

Dessert

Recipe courtesy of Susan Ford's Recipe Stash

Makes 30 cookies

Ingredients: 
  • 2½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1½ cups sugar, divided
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • Up to 2 tablespoons milk, as needed

Additional tools: a glass with a pattern on the bottom for pressing the cookies

Note: substitute 1/2 cup cocoa for 1/2 cup flour for chocolate sugar cookies

 

Mom's Sugar Cookies

 Sugar cookies 

chocolate sugar cookies

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Method: 

Preheat oven to 350˚F.

Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt; reserve.

Cream together butter, shortening, 1 cup granulated sugar, vanilla and egg. Incorporate flour mixture into creamed mixture; blend in up to 2 tablespoons milk if needed.

Drop dough by rounded teaspoons onto un-greased baking sheets.

Put the remaining 1/2 cup sugar in a small flat bowl or saucer. Dip the bottom of your patterned glass in some water, shake off the excess, dip the bottom of the glass into the sugar, and press out the balls of cookie dough. Dip in sugar for each cookie.

Bake for 12 minutes, or until beginning to brown around the edges.

Variation: For chocolate sugar cookies, substitute 1/2 cup of cocoa powder for 1/2 cup flour.

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