Soft Sugar Cookies
From notyourmomma 17 years ago
- 40 minutes to make
- Serves 36
Over 100 year old recipe, cookie with a soft consistency and wonderful flavor. Alton Brown could probably explain the scientific reason these cookies work, but I know that the best vanilla flavoring makes the best flavored cookie and the buttermilk adds something special too.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of sugar shopping list
- plus more for dusting cookies right before baking shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups trans fat free vegetable shortening shopping list
- 4 eggs shopping list
- 1 teaspoon of real vanilla extract shopping list
- 4 1/2 cups of all purpose flour, sifted shopping list
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder shopping list
- 1 cup of buttermilk, mixed with 1 teaspoon of baking soda shopping list
How to make it
- Cream together the 2 cups of sugar with the shortening.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition.
- Add the vanila.
- Mix the flour and the baking powder together.
- Beginning with the flour mixture, add the flour mixture and buttermilk mixture to the beaten sugar mixture, ending with the flour mixture.
- Preheat the oven to 360 degrees.
- Lightly flour a cookie sheet and drop batter by the soup spoon full onto it.
- Dust the tops with sugar.
- Bake for 12 minutes each until very lightly browned.
- Remove from pan and cool on a cookie rack.
- Nibble with a cup of hot tea,and know you are savoring a little bit of history.
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