tert in seattle wrote:
> 1 c butter
> 1/2 c sugar
> 1 egg
> 1 T vanilla
> 3 c flour
> 1/2 t baking powder
>
> Cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla.
> Sift flour and baking powder and stir into liquid
> ingredients.
>
> Refrigerate, roll out, cut, and bake ~10 min at 350F.


In my book, sugar cookies must have sugar sprinkled on top. The sugar
might have a drop of food coloring in it to make it more fun for kids.


Something very similar in Joy of Cooking is called Vanilla Refrigerator
Cookies, so I'd go with that. (The JoC recipe has less butter.)


It looks like a good standard recipe that can be dressed up and varied
in a number of ways. You could roll it out, cut out shapes, press a
walnut half in each one, roll it and put filling in it as for
hamentaschen, flatten a walnut sized piece of dough and put a dab of jam
in each for thumbprint cookies, add cinnamon, etc.


--Lia