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Hi everyone, we use to have this neighbor up the street from us her name was Mrs.Kitchen, believe it or not lol, but she gave my mom THE BEST sugar cookie recipe ever. It was crispy, light, melt in your mouth, sugar cookies. They didn't require alott of chewing because they just melted in your mouth, they broke really easily as well but baked up beautifully everytime. They were smashed down with a jar dipped with colored sugar, we usually made them for Christmas with green and red sugar. I remember the recipe had both oil and butter in it and maybe even some powdered sugar, and cream of tartar, there was a good amount of cream of tartar that gave them a tiny zip. I believe my mom probably was given the recipe back in maybe the late 70s but it could have been an old recipe.My mom ended up losing the recipe somehow and we've been trying to figure out where it was from, like a publisher or a public recipe to no avail. None of the recipes I have tried that had the right ingredients have been THE ONE. Any help appreciated in finding out which recipe it was.
Nearly 35 years ago… omg, that made me feel ancient… I worked in Fox Valley Mall and they had a bakery on the upper floor around the corner from the place I worked that had the most delicious sugar cookies.
These were not a cut cookie but rolled and the balls had to be rolled in sugar prior to baking. Possibly flattened but I don’t think so. A crackly cookie with a softer (but not soft) center and just a smidge of lemon flavor.
To this day, I occasionally dream about these humble delicious cookies.
The texture was very similar to molasses ginger crackle cookies. They were huge, a good 5 inches in diameter and fairly thick and just awesome. Not pillowy like the frosted sugar cookies you can buy (which I dont like) and not flat and hard like the shaped sugar cookies you can buy (which are decent, but can’t hold a candle to these old-fashioned ones).
Does anyone have a recipe for a cookie like this?