Al's Basic Cookie Recipe
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
60 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 1⁄2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 1⁄4 cups flour
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup brown sugar
directions
- Whisk all the dry ingredients (salt, too) together in a separate bowl.
- Cream the butter.
- Add the white sugar and mix well.
- Add the eggs and mix well.
- Add the rest of the sugar (and ya, mix well).
- Add the two mixes together and mix well.
- Roll into a 1 inch ball.
- Drop into a small mixing bowl of brown sugar to coat the outside completely.
- Place on the cookie sheet and flatten with a fork.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 14 minutes.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
A journeyman carpenter turned Registered Nurse, my mother was a baker by trade and worked in a bakery in a small town in Alberta, Canada. One of my treasures - her red Purity Cookbook from 1947. Loaded with recipes that preserve our delectable, but not-to-healthy love of sugar, butter and fat!