"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> tert in seattle > wrote:
>
>> writes:
>> >In article >,
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >Cut out sugar cookies.
>>
>> what is the difference between sugar cookies and butter cookies?
>>
>> they taste more buttery than sugary to me
>
> Butter cookies recipes are developed by Land O'Lakes; sugar cookies
> recipes are developed by C & H. "-)
>
> I really don't know but I think of most "sugar cookies" as being
> cutouts. I don't think of butter cookies as being cutouts.
>
> Ho ho ho.
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> Notes about our meals in Tuscany have been posted to
> http://www.jamlady.eboard.com; 10-16-2007

Having grown up in Minnesota I would call those sugar cookies. I never
heard of "butter cookies" until I was long grown.

We had sugar cookies and spritz cookies and other kinds of cookies.

Now I just sit on the davenport and drink pop or coffee ands.

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