Ella zeek's sugar cookies
48 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | cups | All-purpose flour |
| 1½ | cup | Brown sugar |
| ½ | cup | White sugar |
| 1 | cup | Shortening |
| ¼ | cup | Milk |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| 2 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
Directions
Cream sugars and shortening. Add milk, vanilla and eggs and mix well. Stir in remaining ingredients and mix well. Refrigerate for about 1 hour.
With floured hands roll teaspoonful of dough into a ball. Place on cookie sheet. With three fingres together, press ball flat, leaving ridges down the middle. Bake in 400øF oven for 9 to 12 minutes or until lightly gold.
Ella was a neighbor who was ten years older than God when I was a child. She always had these in her cookie jar, and usually would bake a dozen every day since the dough keeps so well. It is one of my all time favorites and I have never tasted them anywhere else.