Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies

Servings: Cookies

A vintage hand written recipe card for an Old Fashioned Sugar Cookie; make these sugar cookies with butter, sugar, cream or milk, vanilla, eggs, flour, baking powder, and salt.

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Ingredients

1 1/2 cups butter beaten
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons cream or milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs or 4 yolks well-beaten
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Method

Cream 1 1/2 cups butter, beaten, 2 cups sugar, 2 tablespoons cream or milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 2 eggs or 4 yolks, well-beaten.
Add 3 cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 2 teaspoons baking powder, sifted together.
Mix well. Arrange by teaspoons on buttered tin 1-inch apart.
Bake at 350-degrees, 8 minutes.