Dinner Party

Nanny's Sugar Cookies

This is my great grandmother's recipe. She was from a large Norweigen family who immigrated to the States. She and her youngest brother were the only ones born in the USA. When I was a kid we would visit her house in Minnesota during the summer. She would serve us these cookies cut out in a flower shape and serve them with lemonade. We would eat every last cookie she offered us. When these are rolled out thin they are as hard to quit eating as potato chips.

1 cup sugar
¾ cup unsalted butter
1 egg
2 tsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp lemon extract (do not leave out, it really makes the cookies)
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
2 ½ cups flour

Cream the sugar and butter together, then add the egg, milk and extracts.

Combine the dry ingredients together in a bowl and slowly add to the sugar/butter mixture.

Chill the dough and roll out thin, for iced cookies you can roll it out thicker and it works fine.

Sprinkle with sugar and bake on an un-greased cookie sheet or parchment paper.

Bake at 375 degrees.