Title: Favorite Cookies
Categories: Cookie
Yield: 1 Batch

1/2	c	Butter
3/4	c	Sugar
1/4	c	Sour milk
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Nutmeg
		Flour
1	tb	Superfine sugar

Sift flour and sugar together and set aside. Cream butter and sugar together, add sour milk. Work in flour enough to roll, making a very soft dough. Roll out and cut with a cookie cutter.

Put superfine sugar on a plate and dip the tops of each cookie in sugar as you cut them out. Place on greased cookie sheets and bake in a 400 F oven, 8 to 10 minutes, until lightly browned.

Adapted for modern kitchens by Dave Sacerdote, from The White House Cookbook, 1915

The original recipe, as printed:

One cup of butter, one and a half cups of sugar, one-half cup of sour milk, one level teaspoonful of soda, a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg. Flour enough to roll; make quite soft. Put a tablespoonful of fine sugar on a plate and dip the tops of each as you cut them out. Place on buttered tins and bake a light brown in a quick oven.

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