Recipes for Wonderful Granddaughter (WGD) - 3

Ora's Sugar Cookies

Recipe is from the late Ora Thomas of Iowa - a family friend in the 1940s and 1950s.

Cream:

    3 cups granulated white sugar

    1 cup lard (lard that requires refrigeration - not hydrogenized)

Add & beat:

    2 eggs

Continue beating as add:

    1/2 teaspoon table salt

    1 teaspoon cinnamon [I sometimes use ground nutmeg.]

    1 cup sour cream

    1/2 teaspoon baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)

    1 teaspoon baking powder

    1/2 teaspoon vanilla

    7 cups flour (or enough to make a stiff rolling dough)

Roll out. Cut into 2 1/2-inch-to-3-inch-diameter circles. Place on cookie sheets. Bake 10-15 minutes at 400-450 degrees Fahrenheit. [Ora did not, but I sometimes cut into various shapes, decorated with sprinkles, and/or iced the cookies - after baking.]

    

Comments

[Ole Phat Stu]

Goy tip for cookies : I don't like them as sweet as yours, so a half rasher of bacon is put on each of them before baking :-)

[Cop Car]

You are a man with tastes after Hunky Husband's heart, when it comes to bacon. However, HH claims that there is no such thing as "too sweet". Me? I like Ora's Sugar Cookies because they don't taste too sweet (to me) even though they violate the rule: 3:2:1, flour to fat to sugar for sugar cookies. Adding bacon would be a sacrilege!

I learned about 14 years ago not to argue with another's taste buds. I now allow that whatever you say your taste buds tell you, is the truth. During training to become a state-certified ombudsman for a skilled care nursing home I found that, what tasted like a piece of paper, to me, left others grabbing for a glass of water. The taste that they perceived was extremely bitter. The instructors were cautioning us to believe it when a nursing home resident told us that the food tasted a certain way.