Grandmother's Sugar Cookies
Remember when you used to slip down the back cellar steps and "swipe" cookies like these from Grandmother's big cookie jar? She had to store them in the cellar to keep them soft and fresh. You can keep them handy anywhere because nowadays they're madr with Crisco, a pure, sweet shortening which helps to make them fine flavored and moist-and keeps them so to the very last cookie. (Recipe makes 50 lucious cookies)
Ingredients
- 1 cup Crisco
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs beaten
- 3/4 cup thick sour milk
- 1/2 teaspoon soda
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- (1/2 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon nutmeg)
Directions
- Blend Crisco and sugar, add beaten eggs. Add sour milk with soda dissolved in it and stir in flour sifted with salt. Don't roll dough-drop by spoonfuls on Criscoed pan. Sprinkle with mixture of sugar and nutmeg. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) for 10 minutes.