Recipe - Moms Big Batch Sugar Cookies

1 cup Butter; NO substitutes
2 cup Sugar
4 lg Island eggs
2 tablespoon Half and half
5 cup Allpurpose flour
4 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Nutmeg; freshly grated
2 teaspoon Lime juice
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and half and half. Add flour, which
has been sifted with baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Add lime juice and
vanilla extract. Mix well. Chill dough overnight OR for at least three
hours. Divide dough into 8 pieces. Roll out one piece at a time on a
floured board. Leave the remaining dough in the fridge until you're ready
to roll it out. Cut the thinly rolled dough with cookie cutters, and bake
at 350 degrees on an ungreased cookie sheet for about 8 minutes until
golden. Do not let cookies brown.

Decorate with colored sugar, cookie frosting, nuts, raisins, candied fruit
or whatevers.

Recipe by: Mary Spero

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by
MarySpero@prodigy.com (MS MARY E SPERO) on 9 No, v 1997