Recipe - Homemade Slice And Bake Sugar Cookies

2 cup Butter or margarine
2 cup Granulated sugar
3 Eggs
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 teaspoon Lemon extract
6 cup Unbleached flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda

Cut four 14" x 12" pieces of waxed paper or plastic wrap. Set aside.

In a bowl, cream butter or margarine with the sugar. Beat in vanilla and
lemon extracts and eggs until light and fluffy. In a bowl, combine flour
and baking soda. Stir flour mixture into egg and butter mixture; blend
well.

Divide the dough into 4 pieces. Shape each piece into an 8" 10" roll.
Wrap rolls in waxed paper. Place the rolls in a rectangular freezer
container with a tight fitting lid, or into a large freezer ziplock bag,
or wrap well in a piece of heavy duty

To prepare cookies: Slightly thaw one roll of sugar cookie dough. Preheat
oven to 350ø. Cut the dough into 1/4" thick slices. Arrange cut pieces on
lightly greased cookie sheets, placing about 1/2" apart. Sprinkle with
additional granulated sugar, i

Makes 4 rolls of cookie dough, or enough for about 12 dozen cookies.

Posted to EATL Digest 19 Jun 96

Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:41:37 0600

From: Ilene Warfield ilenewar@STARNETINC.COM

Recipe By : _MakeAMix_ by Eliason, Harward & Westover