{"id":353,"date":"2004-11-27T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T04:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauldearing.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2023-11-24T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:36:12","slug":"christmas-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Servings: A few dozen<br \/>\nPrep time: One Hour, plus two hours to refrigerate dough<br \/>\nCook time: 10 Minutes<br \/>\nDifficulty: Moderate<\/p>\n<p>1 1\/2 cups sugar<br \/>\n1 cup vegetable shortening<br \/>\n1 egg<br \/>\n1 cup buttermilk<br \/>\nabout 5 cups flour<br \/>\n1 tsp. Baking soda<br \/>\n1 tsp. Baking powder<br \/>\n1 tsp. Salt<br \/>\n1 tsp. Vanilla extract <\/p>\n<p>Box of Powdered Sugar<br \/>\n1 tsp. Vanilla Extract<br \/>\nA little bit of Milk <\/p>\n<p>Cream sugar and shortening. Mix in egg, buttermilk, and vanilla. Mix 4 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sift. Combine flour and shortening mixtures. Dough will be sticky. Let stand in refrigerator several hours or overnight. Take a baseball sized lump of dough and roll it out thin on a well floured surface. Cut out cookies and place them on a greased sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 325? or until the edges turn a faint brown. Don&#8217;t over-bake, it makes them hard and dry. The frosting recipe is a little free form. Mix powdered sugar and a tsp. of vanilla with a very little milk at a time. Stir until frosting is spreadable. Spread frosting on the cooled cookies and sprinkle on colored sugar decorations while frosting is wet. <\/p>\n<p>These are the Dearing traditional Christmas cookies. Many a kid has gathered around a table to decorate cookies made from this recipe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This legacy Dearing Family Recipe has produces hundreds of dozens of cookies across multiple generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[92,90,91,21],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baked-goods","category-in-rotation","tag-buttermilk","tag-christmas","tag-cookies","tag-recipe-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauldearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}