Description:

A wonderful soft sugar cookie with a hint of lemon.

Source:

susanm

Serves/Makes:3 dozen (3 inches in diameter)

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup (150 ml) Wesson oil (vegetable oil)
• 2 tsp (10 ml) vanilla
• 1 tsp (5 ml) grated lemon rind
• 3/4 cup (175 ml) sugar
• 2 cups (475 ml) sifted all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp (10 ml) baking powder
• 1/2 tsp (2 ml) salt

Preparation

• Heat oven to 400 degrees (200 C.).
• Beat eggs with fork until well blended.
• Stir in oil, vanilla and lemon rind.
• Blend together sugar until mixture thickens.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt; add to egg mixture. (Dough will be soft.)
• Drop by tspfuls about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Stamp each cookie flat with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar (Lightly oil glass, then dip in sugar. . .continue dipping in sugar).
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes.
• Remove immediately from cookie sheet.

Comments

I have loved this cookie recipe since I was about 10 and a friend's mom made them for our Girl Scout meeting. The recipe comes from Quicker Ways to Better Eating, The Wesson Oil Cook Book, 1955.