Cookies to make (see recipe)
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Recipe
Mastering this simple recipe is the first step to making most cookies. By adding everything from raisins to chocolate chips, nuts to caramel chips,oatmeal to wheat germ, food coloring to brown sugar, log cut out to ball compressed with bottom of glass. Make the basic recipe and experiment from there.
- Tim's Basic Cookies
Prep Time: 30 Minutes- Cook Time: 10 Minutes at 350 degrees F
- Ready In: 40 Minutes
- Yields: 30 medium to large servings
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup Crisco
1 & 1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 tablespoon lemon, fresh juice only
1 teaspoon real vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon each nutmeg and coriander
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Additional sugar for rolling
DIRECTIONS:
Divided the dough in half, and roll each half in waxed paper like a log. Sprinkle each side with sugar, wrapped it and refrigerate overnight. Slice 1 &1/2 wide and bake the cookies. For cookie cutter cookies, just be sure to freeze the dough for about 20 minutes, it's easier to work with. The shapes will came out as cut.
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