Old Fashioned Buttermilk Cookies
This is an OLD family recipe

MIX:
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup oleo

ADD:
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs

ADD ALTERNATELY with buttermilk:
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup buttermilk

Cream together sugar, shortening & oleo
Add vanilla & eggs

In a separate bowl combine flour, salt & soda.
Mix in dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk.
Drop from teaspoon onto ungreased pan.
Sprinkle lightly with white sugar or cinnamon sugar or top with raisins or cherries to make a face. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes or until golden color. Makes about 4 dozen good size cookies.

Mary in Va

* Powdered buttermilk does not have to be mixed separately. I just add the powder with my flour and the water with the my other liquids and let it mix in the batter.
Nancy Rogers

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