Old-fashioned Sugar Cookies

Prep Time: 0 Minutes

Cook Time: 15 Minutes

Ready In: 15 Minutes

Servings: 1

Through the Kitchen Door May 1968 - In sharing these recipes from the 60's I must admit that they include poems that I wanted to put here also. I hope you all like them as much as I do.

Ingredients:

the cookie jar

by elsie duncan yale

you may talk about you vases

just how beautiful they are

but to me there's nothing nicer

than a well-filled cookie jar

ginger cookies, raisin cookies

some with walnuts, some with spice . . .

orange cookies, chocolate cookies

why, i think they all are nice.

and that cookie jar of mother's

stands upon the pantry shelf

when i'm hungry she will tell me

i may go and help myself.

yes, i've seen some handsome vases

brought from near or brought from far . . .

but there's nothing that is prettier

than a well-filled cookie jar

old-fashioned sugar cookies

2 cups sugar

1 cup butter

3 eggs

1 cup sour cream

1 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon lemon extract

4 cups flour

Directions:

1. Mix butter and sugar, add eggs, cream, soda and extracts.
2. Add flour.
3. If more flour is needed to make the dough easier to handle, use as little as possible.
4. Poll out the cookies, cut, and bake on a buttered cookie sheet at 375 degrees until light brown.

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