From Aunt Jenny's Old-Fashioned Christmas Cookies and Other All-Time Favorites of
1952...
SugarCookies
Combine and beat thoroughly...
½ cup Homogenized Spry ½ teaspoon salt ½
teaspoon grated lemon rind ½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup sugar 2 unbeaten eggs
Sift together...
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon soda;
add to Spry mixture and blend.
Add...
2 tablespoons milk and mix well
Measure out...
level tablespoons of dough on Spry coated baking sheets. Flatten cookies by stamping
with a flat-bottomed glass covered with a damp cloth. Sprinkle with sugar. Or
press 3 seeded raisins or split blanched almonds into
cookies.
Bake...
in moderately hot oven (375°F.) 10-12 minutes. Makes 3½ dozen.
Orange Sugar Cookies. Add 2 teaspoons
grated orange rind in first mixing step; instead of milk, use 1
tablespoon orange juice. Sprinkle cookies before baking with
sugar which has been rubbed with a little grated orange
rind.
Lemon Sugar Cookies. Increase
grated lemon rind to 2½ teaspoons; instead of milk, use 1
tablespoon lemon juice. Sprinkle cookies before baking with sugar
lightly spiced with nutmeg.
Anise or Caraway Sugar Cookies. Omit
nutmeg. Add 1 tablespoon aniseed or caraway seed
in th first mixing step.
Christmas Sugar Cookies. Brush cookies
before baking with slightly beaten egg white. Decorate tops as follows: (1)
sprinkle with colored sugars (2) cut candied cherries sevearl
times to form leaves of poinsettias and place on each cookie. Make stems with green
citron.
Raisin Sugar Cookies. Add ½ cup
ground raisins to Spry-sugar mixture. Sprinkle cookies before baking with
sugar lightly spiced with cinnamon.
[Editor's note: Spry is no longer on the market. You can substitute Crisco® for Spry.]
From Aunt Jenny's Old-Fashioned Christmas Cookies and Other All-Time Favorites of
1952...