Easy Cookie Recipes for Baking Cookies

Easy Cookie Recipes

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Sugar Cookie Recipe

Ingredients required
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup sour milk or buttermilk to which has been added 1/2 teaspoon soda
2 cups flour with dash of salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
vanilla and lemon extract
Coconut

Preheat oven 400 degrees

Instructions for Cookie Recipe

Cream shortening, sugar and egg. Add sour milk or buttermilk and soda. Add flour, salt and baking powder. Then add vanilla and lemon extract. Drop by large teaspoonful on cookie sheet and sprinkle top with a mixture of coconut and sugar. More coconut than sugar. Flatten and round cookies before putting on coconut. Bake 10 minutes at 400 degrees.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.