Monday, December 5, 2011

Grandma Klein's Christmas Cookies

2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
3 eggs
Cream together
1 cup milk
1 tsp. soda
Mix together to make sour milk, set aside.
5 small cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
Dash of nutmeg
Sift dry ingredients together.
Alternate mixing dry ingredients and milk with the creamed ingredients. Use an electric mixer.
Spoon half the dough onto plastic wrap.  Folding and shaping into a thick square. Repeat with remaining mixture. Freeze overnight.  Remove a package from the freezer and cut a quarter and put the rest back into the freezer.  Roll out the dough on a floured rolling cloth with cloth sleeve on a rolling pin or a cold marble rolling pin.  Use cookie cutters.  Bake at 350 until slightly brown on edges.  3 min. depending on thickness.  Remove from cookie sheet and put on rack.
Frost with butter cream frosting.
decorate with colored sugars, tweezers optional!

























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