Thursday, March 22, 2007

Grandma's Sugar Cookies

4 sticks butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
2 eggs
1 tsp. cream of tartar
4 cups all purpose flour, divided
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Heat oven to 350°.
Lightly grease cookie sheet. Cream butter and sugar well. Add eggs and vanilla. Add 2 cups flour, then soda, salt and cream of tartar. Add remaining 2 cups flour.

Drop generous tablespoons of dough onto cookie sheet. Butter bottom of flat-bottomed glass. Dip glass bottom into sugar, flatten cookie dough.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until very lightly brown.

Makes 50 large or 100 small cookies.

*This cookie recipe is not actually our grandmother's recipe, it was clipped from the newspaper.

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