Valerie's Sugar Cookies
Posted by: Valerie Tue, 7 Dec 2004, at 10:23 p.m

I have made these for about 40 years, the recipe was from a Farm Journal Christmas book.
They are a nice soft sugar cookie

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Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups soft butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
2eggs 5 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 cup milk
 

Directions:
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and beat till fluffy. Sift together dry ingredients. Add alternately with milk. If dough is to sticky to handle add more flour. Roll ¼ inch thick on well floured surface and cut out. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet 8 minutes at 350.
Frost with vanilla icing when cool. Makes about 100 cookies.

I use margarine instead of butter. I also add at least another cup of flour to make a stiff enough dough to handle. I also use vanilla sometimes in place of the nutmeg.