SOFT SUGAR COOKIES
From Billie Reid
4 cups unsifted flour
1/2 t. salt
1 t. soda
1 cup lard
2 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs, unbeaten
1 cup buttermilk
1 t. vanilla
sugar for sprinkling
Sift together flour, salt and soda.
With pastry blender, cut in lard until mixture resembles corn meal. Be careful to keep the mixture cold.
Mix in the sugar. Add eggs, buttermilk and vanilla and mix quickly.
Knead slightly to blend this soft dough.
Roll medium thick, cut into large cookies and sprinkle with sugar.
Place on a greased cookie sheet and bake in a hot oven of 450 F. for about 12 minutes.
Cool cookies. Store in tightly covered container.
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