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.

Oh pshaw, on Sat 22 Dec 2007 07:07:47p, tert in seattle meant to say...

> 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.
>
>
>

Some version of a sugar cookie. Not a shortbread, since it contains both
egg and baking poweder.

--
Wayne Boatwright

Date: Sat, 12(XII)/22(XXII)/07(MMVII)

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9hrs 31mins 2secs
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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.

Vanilla cookies.

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases

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.
>
>


Sugar cookies.

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.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Notes about our meals in Tuscany have been posted to
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com; 10-16-2007

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

tert in seattle wrote:

> what is the difference between sugar cookies and butter cookies?
>


Why does there have to be a difference?

Bob

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

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

Oh pshaw, on Sat 22 Dec 2007 10:47:02p, tert in seattle meant to say...

> 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
>

Typical sugar cookie recipes probably contain less butter than butter
cookie recipes.

--
Wayne Boatwright

Date: Sat, 12(XII)/22(XXII)/07(MMVII)

*******************************************
Countdown 'til Christmas
9hrs 31mins 2secs
*******************************************
The faster you go, the shorter you
are. --Einstein
*******************************************

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
>>
>> 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.

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

"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.

del