Buttermilk Sugar Cookies A Rolled Cookie Dough
Submitted by bettina on December 19, 2002 at 12:43 pm

DESCRIPTION
Buttermilk Sugar Cookies, a rolled cookie dough

SUMMARY
Yield 0 File under Cookies Brownies Bars

INSTRUCTIONS
This has turned into one of my favorite book finds!!, "The Art of Making Good Cookies, Plain and Fancy", Annette Laslett Ross, and Jean Adams Disney, 1963. Good, good, good stuff in here!!

These wonderful cookies are in the "Christmas Cookie Baking Time" section, and are notated in the text, "none better". I know there are a zillion sugar cookie doughs out there, and everyone has a favorite, but add these to your keepers!

Buttermilk Sugar Cookies

1 cup shortening (I used butter)
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup buttermilk
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
About 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour

Cream shortening, blend in sugar. Add slightly beaten egg and vanilla. Dissolve soda in buttermilk, then add to creamed mixture. Sift together 2 cups flour, salt and baking powder. Add to mixture. Add enough more flour so that dough will roll easily on lightly floured board. Dough may be chilled 1 hour or longer, if desired, to make handling easier with less flour. (Too much flour will make cookies tough.) Roll thin, cut with floured cutters into desired shapes. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees 8 to 10 minutes. Do not overbrown. 6 dozen

These took 9 minutes for me...they got a good taste test and passed with flying colors, handed them out to both adults and children yesterday afternoon!

Enjoy, Laura ~(: 0 ]]