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Grandma Vandewege's Sugar Cookies

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Lard-based sugar cookies with nutmeg and vanilla, rolled paper thin, sugared, and baked just six or seven minutes.

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Cindy Holden's note on this recipe: roll the dough out real thin -- "none of that fat stuff."

Cook
7 min
Source
Grandma Vandewege - Cindy Holden - Deb Topp

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup lard
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2-2 cups flour

Directions

  1. Sift dry ingredients together.
  2. Cream the lard and sugar together, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
  3. Work the sifted dry ingredients into the creamed mixture to make a dough.
  4. Roll out real thin, cut and sprinkle with sugar.
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 6-7 minutes.

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