CHERRY COOKIES

Submitted by ellenr on June 21, 2015 - 3:42pm

Summary

Yield
SourceBarbara Mackie's Christmas Cookies
Prep Time1 hour
CategoryCookies & Bars
CuisineAmerican

Description

For Christmas my mother always made lots of cookies and my sister and I would get to help.  This was a favorite and she'd let Jackie and I roll the cookies into little balls and then dip a little "cheese" glass in flour and flatten each cookie.  We'd always sample the cherries and we ended up with pink hands from handling the dough,

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cups flour (all purpose)
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup shortening (crisco)
  • 1/3 cup Maraschino Cherries, drained and chopped

Instructions

Whisk flour and salt together. 

Cream shortening and add sugar gradually and cream until light.  Add egg and beat well.

Stir in flour mixture, then vanilla, then cherries.

Refrigerate until well chilled.

Roll into small balls 3/4" to 1" diameter.  Place on ungreased baking sheets and flatten with bottom of small glass dipped in flour to keep from sticking.

Bake in 400 degree oven 10 minutes.  When done cookies should feel set and barely have a trace of browning at edges.

 

Notes

Store in airtight container.

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