brown sugar cookies

(3 RATINGS)
102 Pinches
Cody, NE
Updated on May 5, 2010

My husband's Great Grandma Theis gave me this recipe when we first got married. There were no directions on the card. I guess she assumed I should know how to mix up a batch of cookies for her grandson!

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup shortening
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 2 - eggs
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

How To Make brown sugar cookies

  • Step 1
    After the ingredients, all she wrote on the card was to drop by teaspoonfuls on cookie sheet & flatten with a damp glass dipped in sugar.
  • Step 2
    (What I do is mix them like traditional cookies. Cream the shortening & sugars. Add in the eggs. Then add in the dry ingredients.)

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