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- From: oday@hplabs (Vicki O'Day)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Sugar Cookies
- Date: 7 Feb 86 05:10:34 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto CA
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE SUG-COOKIES-1 D "11 Jan 86" 1986
- .RZ "SUGAR COOKIES" "Delicate and buttery sugar cookies"
- .IH "makes 10 dozen"
- .IG "1 cup" "butter," "230 g"
- softened
- .IG "1 cup" "salad oil" "250 ml"
- .IG "1 cup" "powdered sugar," "130 g"
- sifted if it is lumpy
- .IG "1 cup" "sugar" "190 g"
- .IG "2" "eggs"
- .IG "1 tsp" "vanilla" "5 ml"
- .IG "4 cups" "flour" "400 g"
- .IG "1 tsp" "baking soda" "5 ml"
- .IG "2 tsp" "cream of tartar" "10 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "" "extra sugar"
- (for dipping)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Cream the butter and sugars, then add oil and mix well.
- .SK 2
- Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well.
- .SK 3
- Sift the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt together,
- then add to above and mix well.
- .SK 4
- Refrigerate overnight, or until dough is firm. If you want to
- speed this up, put the dough in the freezer, but keep an eye on it.
- .SK 5
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 350 175 .
- .SK 6
- Drop dough in
- .AB "\(12tsp" "3ml"
- amounts on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Dip a glass in dough and wipe excess off. Then dip the glass in
- sugar and flatten a cookie. Repeat the dip-in-sugar flatten-cookie
- sequence until all are done. The cookies won't spread in baking,
- so you can easily judge how far apart to put them (you want room
- to cook, but not to grow). If you find that the dough is getting
- too soft to flatten easily, put it in the refrigerator between
- batches.
- .SK 7
- Bake for about 5\-6 minutes, until the edges are JUST beginning
- to turn golden brown. Take off the cookie sheet and put on
- waxed paper or foil to cool.
- .NX
- You can add
- .AB "2\-3 Tbsp" "30\-40 ml"
- cocoa to about
- .AB "1\(12 cups" "500 g"
- dough for chocolate cookies, or add cinnamon to the dipping sugar
- for spice cookies. I like the sugar cookies plain, so
- I've never actually tried this.
- .PP
- These cookies don't freeze well, because they pick up the flavors of the
- other things in the freezer. Make only as many as you can eat before they go
- stale.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 10 minutes preparation, 8 or more hours in refrigerator, 30 minutes final
- preparation and baking.
- .I Precision:
- Measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Vicki O'Day
- Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto CA
- hplabs!oday
-