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.]
