Every year, around the Holidays, I like to share my Sugar Cookie Recipe with you.

It’s a great recipe.  (and easy too.)

The cookies are soft, delicious and even a little bit popular in my circle of family and friends.

The recipe was given to me by my mother on my first Christmas as a new Bride.  (a long time ago)

It was carefully written down, in her own handwriting, on a piece of notebook paper which has now

turned yellow.  It is brittle, tattered, ripped, creased and stained.  (It is priceless to me.)

Enjoy!

Sue’s Sugar Cookies

• 1- 1/2 c. powdered sugar
• 1 c. butter or margarine
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2- 1/2 c. all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. cream of tartar
• 1 tsp. baking soda

1. Cream sugar & butter, add egg & flavoring, mix thoroughly.
2. Sift dry ingredients together and stir in.  (I dump)
3. Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
4. Heat oven to 375°.
5. Divide dough in half & roll out on lightly floured pastry sheet.
6. Roll thin, but thick enough to pick up the design with the cookie cutters.
7. Dip cookie cutter into flour before each cutting.  Cut as many cookies from each rolling as possible.  The least amount of working with the dough gives the best cookie.
8. Place on lightly greased baking sheet.  Bake 7 to 8 min. or until delicately golden.

• For the Glaze I dump around a cup of powdered sugar into a bowl.  Add a dash of vanilla.    Add milk one tablespoon at a time until you get the consistency you want.  (hint:  not too runny)