butter drop

Categories: Cookies
Yield: 48 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
1 cup	Plus 2 tb flour
	=AB ts salt
	=AB ts baking soda
	=AB c (1 stick) butter
6 tablespoons	Brown sugar
6 tablespoons	Sugar
1	Egg
	=AB ts vanilla

Sift together flour, salt ad baking soda and set aside. Work in egg and vanilla vigorously. Then stir in flour combination. Drop batter from a tsp onto a greased cooky sheet, allowing plenty of room for expansion. Bake in preheated 375 oven for 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 48.

Variation: add =AB cup coarsely chopped nuts; 1 cup chocolate pieces =46rom American Cookery by Amelia Simmons Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #208 by PMCiesla@... on Aug 9, 1997