Old Time Sugar Cookies

Posted by ljmacphee on May 16, 2007 under Dessert, Grandmother's Recipes |

1/2 cup spry ( crisco or butter should work)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 Tablespoon milk
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda

Blend spry, salt, lemon rind, and nutmeg
Add sugar gradually and cream well
Add eggs and milk and mix well

Mix flour, soda, powder and add to creamed mixture blending well

Drop from teaspoon on to greased cookie sheet
Flatten cookies with a glass
Sprinkle with sugar or coconut or nuts or halved cherries

Bake at 375 for 10 minutes

This was a recipe grandmother saved off the back of ‘Pure All -Vegetable Spry’ which cost 25 cents a can at the time.