Recipe - Plain Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies

3 One fourth cup Sifted allpurpose flour
2 One half teaspoon Doubleacting baking powder
One half teaspoon (scant) salt
1 One half Stick unsalted butter
1 One half teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 One half cup Granulated sugar
2 Eggs
1 tablespoon Milk
Additional granulated sugar
(for topping)

From: Felicia Pickering MNHAN063@SIVM.SI.EDU

Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 00:20:20 EDT
Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside. In the
large bowl of an electric mixer cream the butter. Add the vanilla and
sugar and beat well. Beat in the eggs one at a time and then add the milk.
On low speed gradually add the sifted dry ingredients, scraping the bowl as
necessary with a rubber spatula and beating only until thoroughly mixed.
Divide the dough in two and wrap each half separately in wax paper or
aluminum foil. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for 3 hours or longer if
you wish. (Chilling the dough in the freezer makes it too hard to roll.)

Adjust two racks to divide the oven into thirds and preheat to 400 F. Place
one piece of the dough on a lightly floured pastry cloth. Turn it over to
flour all sides and form it into a ball. With a floured rolling pin, roll
the dough to the desired thickness: For very large cookies roll to a
generous One fourth inch. Cut the cookies as you wish. If you want very large
cookies, cut with a plain round 4inch cookie cutter. With a wide metal
spatula transfer the cookies to unbuttered cookie sheets. If the cookies
are large and thick, place them 1 One half to 2 inches apart. They may be closer
if they are small and thin.

Sprinkle the tops of the cookies generously with granulated sugar. Bake
until the cookies are lightly browned, reversing the position of the sheets
top to bottom and front to back as necesssary during baking to insure even
browning. Large, thick cookies will need to bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
With a wide metal spatula transfer the cookies to racks to cool.

Recipe is from _Maida Heatter's Book of Great Cookies_.

EATL Digest 21 July 96

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