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tert in seattle

writes:
>tert in seattle wrote:
>> 1 c butter
>> 1/2 c sugar
>> 1 egg
>> 1 T vanilla
>> 3 c flour
>> 1/2 t baking powder
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>> Cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla.
>> Sift flour and baking powder and stir into liquid
>> ingredients.
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>> Refrigerate, roll out, cut, and bake ~10 min at 350F.
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>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.
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>Something very similar in Joy of Cooking is called Vanilla Refrigerator
>Cookies, so I'd go with that. (The JoC recipe has less butter.)
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>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.

thank you -- I still have some of the dough sitting in the fridge, and
a dwindling supply of cookies (some with colored sugar sprinkled on top
and some with icing AND the colored sugar) ... I will try some of your
variations or other ideas depending on what's lurking in the pantry