Farmhouse Sugar Cookies

Submitted by grandma2969

"these make the best puffy sugar cookies that just begs for lots of frosting..my favorite kind of cookie..this recipe came from a friend who is not retired from work..I was lucky enough to get this recipe into one of the Gooseberry Patch cookbooks..."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 17mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 4 dozen
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 1 cup Crisco
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 4 tablespoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt

directions

1. combine wet ingredients and blend well.1-2 minutes.
2. sift dry ingredients together and combine with wet ingredients. Mix well.
3. chill dough at least 1 hour for ease in rolling out.
4. roll out on thoroughly floured surface -- to a little less than 1/2" thick.(if you like a thicker cookie).
5. cut out with desired cutters, brush off excess flour. gently --.
6. bake at 350* for 12 minutes.
7. cool on sheets 5 minutes. Then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
8. frost with your favorite icing.

Reviews

[Saturn]

I had a hard time with these. There wasn't enough wet ingredients to mix in with the dry. I ended up using about 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup of milk to get the ingredients to come together. After the dough had chilled, it worked fairly well. Right before I rolled it out, I added a handful of icing sugar. I was worried that the flour flavour would overpower the sweetness. My fiance liked the final result (without icing). His only complaint was that I didn't roll them out thin enough. I liked the thicker ones myself.

 

[Lacy H.]

Forgot 1 cup milk. I grew up with these sugar cookies everything matches identically except mine calls for 1 c milk in with the wet ingredients. ??