50 year Old Shepherd RECIPES   Venture into the kitchens of the past if you dare by trying these old fashioned recipes of a bygone generation of Shepherd homemakers

 

SUGAR COOKIES   by Mrs. A. H. Slade  -  1956

 

2 ½ cups flour               2/3 cup butter

2 tsp. baking powder     1 ¼ cup sugar

1/3 cup milk                  2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla                 ¼ tsp salt

 

   Cream butter and sugar together thoroughly.  Add beaten eggs, milk, and flavoring.  Mix well and spoon in flour which has been sifted 4 times with baking powder and salt.  Chill and roll out thin on well floured board.  Cut out with round cutter.  Place on greased baking sheet.  Press raisins and pecans well down into each cookie and sprinkle top of each cookie with sugar.  Use salt shaker so sugar will not get in the pan.  Bake in 450 deg. oven until golden brown.

 

From “Shepherd’s Recipe Roundup” book, compiled and sold by the Women’s Society of Christian Service of  the Shepherd Methodist Church in 1956.

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