Vanilla Cookies Recipe by Ruth Paget
Makes 12 cookies
Ingredients:
-2¼ cups sifted flour
-1 teaspoon baking powder
-1 teaspoon salt
-1 cup sugar
-1 teaspoon nutmeg
-2 teaspoons vanilla
-1 tablespoon cream
-1/4 cup vegetable oil
-2 beaten eggs
-parchment paper
Steps:
1-Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
2-Combine flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and nutmeg in a bowl and blend well (dry ingredients).
3-Combine vanilla, cream, vegetable oil, and eggs in another bowl and blend well (wet ingredients). Add wet ingredients with dry ingredients and blend well.
4-Use two spoons (one to measure and one to push) to drop dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 12 minutes and cool cookies on a rack.
(A Royal Oak, Michigan Recipe)
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
