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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Powdered Sugar
1 Cup Softened Butter
1 Cup Cooking Oil
2 eggs
4 1\/2 cups Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Cream of Tarter
1 tsp Vanilla <\/p>\n
Cream the sugars, butter and oil until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs and vanilla, and mix well. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, cream of tarter. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture until combined.<\/p>\n
You can spoon these onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet, and flatten. Bake at 375, for 10-12 minutes.<\/p>\n
OR<\/em><\/p>\n You can chill these 2-3 hours, and roll out, and use as for cutouts. Bake as above.<\/p>\n You can sprinkle these with a light coating of powdered sugar once completely cooled.<\/p>\n These keep about 1 week, in a tightly covered container.<\/p>\n My notes:<\/strong> <\/p>\n Gram used Lard, but I use softened butter. <\/p>\n I like these as cutouts, so I lay the dough on a piece of saran wrap, flatten, lay another piece of saran wrap on top and roll out. I then chill for at least an hour before cutouts are made. Repeat the process once the dough has softened. <\/p>\n Also, I make this in large batches (4-5 batches), lay out as above with the saran wrap in small batches, and freeze. Let dough thaw in the refrigerator before using. <\/p>\n Also, I have made this as a ‘slicing log’ — i.e….. I’ve rolled it up into a log shape, refrigerated and sliced and baked. This also freezes well. <\/p>\n I like these cookies a little on the ‘thick’ side.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is my Grams recipe for sugar cookies — these melt in your mouth and are just wonderful. I would not use these for icing\/decorating style cookies – there are other recipes better suited for decorating — this contains too … Continue reading \n