Old Fashioned Soft Sugar Cookie/teacakes

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Old Fashioned Soft Sugar Cookie/teacakes

Ingredients

Here goes an Old fashioned sugar cookie recipe. This recipe makes soft,fat sugar cookies. Great big ones too. Stir together flour, baking powder, soda, salt and nutmeg. In a large bowl beat shortening for 30 seconds. Add sugar and beat till fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla and lemon extract beat well. Add flour mixture, beating till well mixed. Divide in half. Cover and chill 3 hours or till easy to handle. For large cookies, roll dough 1 cm thick. Cut into rounds with a 8 cm cookie cutter. For small cookies, roll dough 0.375 thick and cut into rounds with a 5 cm cookie cutter. Place 6 cm apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with addition sugar (colored red and green sugar is nice for xmas time). Bake in a 190ÂșC oven for 10 to dozen mins. Remove and cool. Makes 24 large or 48 small cookies. The large are the best it looks like a nice big sugar cookie.