Grandma Miller's Nutmeg Christmas Cookies

Megan Miller

2 cups flour (240 g)

1 cup sugar (200 g)

1½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 to 4 teaspoons nutmeg

½ cup shortening (or stick butter)

2 eggs (well beaten)

Cream butter and sugar

Add eggs and mix

Add flour, salt, baking soda, and nutmeg

Place in wax paper and chill

Roll in ⅛ inch think and cut out cookies

Sprinkle sugar sprinkles (not chalky kind) on top before baking

Bake for 10 min (or less, depending on thickness) at 375 degrees

To get thin enough cookies spread a chunk of the warm dough on a cookie sheet sandwiched between parchment/wax paper. Put it in the freezer until hard and then use cookie cutter on the pan. Once all the shapes are cut put the pan back in the freezer until hard and then peel the left over dough off.

Put red and green sprinkles on before putting in the oven

Circle shapes are easiest because you can twist them

Be cautious of putting cookies too close together in the cut out stage

Bake for 7 minutes if very thin

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