Recipe - Nanny Fishers Sugar Cookies

2 cup Sugar
One half cup Crisco shortening (I used
butter!)
One half cup Butter (1 stick)
2 Eggs
4 1/8 cup Flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 cup Buttermilk
1 teaspoon Baking sodadissolved in
the buttermilk
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

My coworker made these cookies for Valentine's Day using her Grandmother
Nanny Fisher's recipe and they were wonderful. I made them for my family
and didn't have any Crisco so I used all butter. Excellent!

Cream together sugar, shortening, and butter. Add eggs and mix thoroughly.
Alternately add some flour and baking powder, then some milk mixture.

Add vanilla. Mix well and refrigerate overnight. (This makes an extremely
sticky dough!) Use an additional cup of flour to roll out. Use flour
liberally. Use a light touch with rolling pin. Cut out cookie shapes. Bake
in a preheated 350 degree oven until top of cookie doesn't dent when
touched lightly, about 12 minutes. Makes about 4 dozen fairly large
cookies.

Ice with butter and confectioners sugar icing flavored with vanilla and
colored with food coloring.

Posted to FOODWINE Digest 18 Feb 97 by Gretl Collins
gretl_collins@AGCS.CAS.PSU.EDU on Feb 19, 1997.