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Grandma June's Sugar Cookies

The perfect sugar cookie for rolling, cutting, and frosting.
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Ingredients
  

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups lard/butter (softened)/or shortening My grandma used lard, but I just use salted butter
  • 4 tsp. cream of tartar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 7 cups flour

Instructions
 

  • Mix together softened butter, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and milk. After creamy, add in cream of tartar, salt, baking soda. Add flour 1-2 cups at a time and slowly mix together.
  • Flour surface heavily. Lay out 1/6th or so of the dough on floured surface. Sprinkle liberally with flour and roll out dough. You may need to continue to sprinkle flour as you roll out dough to keep it from sticking. I also like to coat the rolling pin with flour.
  • Cut out cookies with cookie cutters.
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Cook until the edges JUST begin to brown.
  • Let cool completely before frosting.
  • You can find my favorite frosting recipe HERE