Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe

This Soft Sugar Cookie recipe originated from Elizabeth's Great Grandfather.  He was born in 1899.  He got the recipe from a Civil War widow, so we imagine it has been around for quite some time.  He used to make them and mail them at Christmas, packed in popcorn, to all of his grandchildren.  He also sold them, along with homemade bread, when his health caused him at a young age to have to stop dairy farming.  Click this link to see the Story of The Sugar Cookie Recipe post that Elizabeth wrote earlier.

Sprinkled with white sugar (left) and decorative sugar sprinkles (right).

Note:  The larger these are made the softer they will be.  They should just
begin to brown around the edges and the centers set up when done.  It takes a while to get the hang of making them -- at least for us it did.  I don't think we ever have made them when they turned out just like Grandpa's.

Click here to find Elizabeth's post for Step by Step, Illustrated Sugar Cookies Recipe.

Grandpa used Crisco in his cookies, we have replaced that with butter. He also always made one test cookie to see if more flour might be needed -- it seems to change with the weather apparently.  And he added enough flour to make them easy to roll out and cut with cookie cutters.  He also made some with chocolate chips in them.