Mom's Sugar Cookies

These are standard sugar cookies

Ingredients:

• 1½ C Crisco
• 2 C Sugar
• 1¼ C Milk
• 2 Eggs
• 1 t Baking Soda
• 2 t Baking Powder
• 1 t salt
• 3 t vanilla
• 4 C Flour

Instructions:

• Mix Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, and salt and set aside. This will henceforth be called "The dry mix".
• Cream the Crisco and the sugar together until light and fluffy.
• Add Eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla, mix well.
• add Milk and dry mixture and stir by hand.
• Spread some Flour on counter.
• Roll Dough on flour until all air bubbles are eliminated and your desired thickness has been achieved. Add more flour if dough is too wet. Cut with cookie cutters.
• Bake @ 350° F until golden brown. This really depends on how thick your cookies are and how big they are but if you are making a normal sized regular cookie I'd look at around 6-8 minutes.

Notes

This makes a crapload of cookies. And they're good in that, hey, it's 1900 and this tastes better than dirt kind of way. But sometimes that's the perfect cookie. For an icing to these try some confectionary sugar mixed with water and poured over the top to dry. Food colorings can be added for holiday fun.