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Sugar Cookies

Makes a large batch, 8 or 9 dozen.

1 stick margarine (1/2 cup)
1 stick butter (1/2 cup)
1 c. white sugar
1 c. powdered sugar
2 eggs
1 c. Crisco oil
2 tsp. vanilla
Pinch of salt
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cream of tartar
4 1/2 c. flour

Drop by teaspoon, flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Bake at 350 oven for 8 to 10 minutes.

Sugar cookies

Mix the following:
2 sticks oleo
1 c. vegetable oil
1 c. powdered sugar
1 c. granulated sugar
2 beaten eggs
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. vanilla
4 1/3 c. flour

Place in refrigerator and chill thoroughly. Roll into small balls and place on a cookie sheet. Press each ball twice with the bottom of a glass that has been dipped in soft butter and then sugar. Redip glass in the sugar before each "press." Bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes.

Sugar Cookies

1 c. oleo
2 eggs
2 c. sugar
1 c. salad oil
2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 tsp. lemon flavoring
5 c. flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs, flavorings and salad oil. Beat. Combine dry ingredients and add to sugar mixture. Form into 1 inch balls. Place on cookie sheet. Flatten with glass dipped with sugar. Bake 10 minutes at 350.

Sugar Cookies ( makes 100 cookies)

1 c. white sugar
1 c. powdered sugar
1 c. margarine
1 1/3 c. vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
4 c. sifted flour plus 4 heaping T.
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cream of tartar

Cream sugar, margarine and oil. Beat in eggs. Sift dry ingredients and mix; roll in balls. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet; press with a glass dipped in sugar. Bake 10 to 12 minutes at 375.

Sugar Cookies - No Eggs

1 c butter, softened
1/2 c plus 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
1 3/4 c flour
1 tsp. vanilla
sugar for rolling

Cream butter and sugar. Add flour, a little at a time, then vanilla. Stir until blended.

Roll dough into small balls the size of a walnut, then roll the balls in sugar. Flatten with cookie stamp or bottom of a glass. Put onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until edges are lightly browned, 17 to 20 minutes. This dough needs no chilling, rolling or cutting. It is easily doubled. Preparation time: 15 minutes Baking time: 17 to 20 minutes per batch 1. Heat oven to 300 degrees. Honorable mention went to Agnes Da Costa of Chicago. from the Chicago Tribune second annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 14, 1989

Powdered Sugar Cookies

1 1/2 cup plus 2 Tablespoons butter or margarine
3 1/2 cups flour
1 1/3 cup powdered sugar
1 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 350. Cream together the softened butter and powdered sugar until fluffy. Blend in the vanilla. Blend in flour and mix till fluffy. Stir in chopped walnuts. Drop from a tsp. on an ungreased cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart. Use the plam of your hand or spoon to press the cookie flat.

Bake for 10 minutes. After cookies are cooled use a sieve to sprinkle powdered sugar. Tip: you can also use pecans.

Recipes for more Sugar Cookies!

Here's a recipe for Sour Cream Cookies. They are a "drop" cookie.

This recipe for Snickerdoodles is interesting. You place them on the cookie sheet after rolling them in balls, and they puff up and flatten on their own.

Here's another recipe for Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies that are a "drop" cookie. To emphasize the butter flavor, brush the baked cookies lightly with melted butter while they are still warm. You can also make Almond Cookies, Butterscotch Cookies, and Chocolate Cookies from this recipe.

This next recipe is called Ice Box Cookies. You make the dough into rolls and refrigerate several hours. Slice and Bake cookies!

Here's a Icebox cookie recipe that has butter and brown sugar and nuts in it. It is also a slice and bake cookie. leave in the refrigerator overnight.

Here's a sugar cookie recipe called Angel Crisps. This is one of the recipes where you press flat with a sugar dipped glass.