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11/17/11

The Original Remsen Avenue Sugar Cookies

1 cup Crisco
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
pinch salt
3 or 4 tablespoons orange juice

1 tablespoon cinnamon and 3 tablespoons sugar mixed together

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, combine Crisco with beaten eggs and sugar until smooth.  Add baking powder, vanilla, salt and orange juice.  Form batter into a ball, cover with saran wrap and refrigerate until cool.
Mix together 1 tablespoon cinnamon and 3 tablespoons sugar in a shallow bowl and reserve to top each cookie before it is baked.
Take one quarter of the dough and roll out on a floured surface until about 1/4 inch high. Cut with cookie cutter. Take cut out shape and press in cinnamon/sugar mixture. Remove and place on a cookie sheet.  Use the remaining dough in the same way.
Place each cookie on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Place cookie sheet in  350 degree oven and bake approximately 15 minutes or until cookies are brown on the sides. Cool and remove. 


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