Christmas Sugar cookies

For Rebecca’s Christmas Recipe Roundup


I inherited this old cookbook from my mother - The Purity Cookbook published in 1945. I discovered online that a copy in good condition is worth $74.50. My copy is missing a cover, a few pages and is stained with various ingredients, so I don’t think it would bring the top price. But it’s priceless to me. So many memories - little notes beside favourite recipes - and on the back page a recipe in my own childish handwriting for chocolate fudge. Also my mother kept a record of all our childhood illnesses in the back of the book - I had mumps in 1959, measles in 1961 and chicken pox in 1966.


These sugar cookies are one of our favourite Christmas recipes from this cookbook.I have tried a lot of sugar cookie recipes and I like this one the best. Every year we get out all of our Christmas cookie cutters, red and green sugar sprinkles and have a cookie-making party.

Sugar Cookies

1/2 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
1 egg or 2 egg yolks
2 T milk or cream
1/2 t vanilla
1 3/4 c sifted flour
2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt

Cream butter, add sugar gradually, followed by well beaten egg, milk and vanilla. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt and add to first mixture. Mix well. Chill, then roll 1/8 in. thick and cut with cookie cutters. Decorate with red or green sprinkles. Bake on greased cookie sheet at 35 degrees for 8-10 min. Cookies are very light brown on bottom when baked.

Enjoy!

If you have a favourite Christmas recipe, why not pop over to Rebecca’s and join the party!

Baked Fudge Bars

Baked Fudge Bars recipe

Rhubarb Cobbler

Rhubarb Cobbler

Nannie's Bread

Bread recipe

Recipe Roundup

Supper Dishes over at Rebecca’s Recipe Roundup

Here’s one of our favourites. It was the only dish I knew how to cook when I got married at the ripe old age of 19 (I did know how to bake cookies and desserts though…)

Mrs. Pillson’s Dinner

(named after a friend of my mother who always had this quick and easy dish ready for supper when the ladies went curling in the afternoon) 

1. Fry hamburger in electric frying pan or stovetop frying pan with a cover - you can add onions although I always begged my mother NOT to - I didn’t like them as a kid - now I love them.
2. Drain fat when hamburger is browned
3. Cut up potatoes, carrots, turnip in bite-size pieces
   
4. Cover with boiling water - add a good squirt of ketchup, onion salt, pepper
   
5. Cover and cook at medium heat
   
6. You can add some frozen veges near the end of the cooking stage if you like - I always did but my mom stuck with carrots, potatoes and turnip - my kids like corn and I like to add peas for colour.
   
7. Cook for 20 minutes or so until veges are tender but not mushy - the water should be  almost boiled dry.
8. A little cheese melted on top is a nice addition

Simple and good. Leftovers are even better.