The Very Best Sugar Cookie!

This recipe is from the 1952 Farm Journal. I have always loved them. The addition of the nutmeg is genius!

                          The Best Sugar Cookies

  1 1/4           cups  soft butter
  2               cups  sugar
  2              large  eggs
  5               cups  flour
  1           teaspoon  salt
  4          teaspoons  baking powder
  1           teaspoon  ground nutmeg
     1/2           cup  milk

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat until fluffy.
Stir together dry ingredients and add alternately with milk to creamed
mixture. If dough is sticky, add flour to handle.
Roll 1/4 inch thick on well-floured pastry cloth; cut. Place bake on
decorations on cookies. Bake in ungreased baking sheet in moderate oven
(375) 8 minutes. Cool on racks. Makes about 100 cookies, depending on
size.



Sorry about no photos, moving house takes way more work then I remember!