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                              Sugar Cookies

Recipe By     : Vicki O'Day, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Cookies

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   1 1/8  c             Butter -- softened
   1 1/8  c             Salad oil
   1 1/8  c             Powdered sugar -- sifted
   1      c             Sugar
   2                    Eggs
   1 1/8  ts            Vanilla
   3 1/4  c             Flour
   1 1/8  ts            Baking soda
     2/3  tb            Cream of tartar
     1/2  ts            Salt
                        Extra sugar -- for dipping

Cream the butter and sugars, then add oil and mix well.

Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well.

Sift the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt together, then
add to above and mix well.

Refrigerate overnight, or until dough is firm. If you want to speed
this up, put the dough in the freezer, but keep an eye on it.

Preheat oven to 350 F / 175 C.

Drop dough in 1 ts / 3 ml amounts on an ungreased cookie sheet. Dip a
glass in dough and wipe excess off. Then dip the glass in sugar and
flatten a cookie. Repeat the dip-in-sugar flatten-cookie sequence
until all are done. The cookies won't spread in baking, so you can
easily judge how far apart to put them (you want room to cook, but
not to grow). If you find that the dough is getting too soft to
flatten easily, put it in the refrigerator between batches.

Bake for about 5 to 6 minutes, until the edges are just beginning to
turn golden brown. Take off the cookie sheet and put on waxed paper
or foil to cool.


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