Sugar Cookies
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Over the years, Pam has shared the fine cooking art,
Of making sugar cookies from scratch from the start,
With her girls, their friends, and recently our grandchildren,
She had learned from her fine mother way back then.
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Sugar Cookies
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When Pam was a girl, sugar cookies she loved to make,
With her Mom getting flour all over her before they baked.
Smelling that wonderful aroma as they then did bake,
Coming out a golden brown ready for icing to take.
MaMo rolling that Sugar Cookie dough way back.
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Decorating them looking nice for Christmas and such,
Was so fun with both of their really fine artistic touch.
Then the best part of all was eating them on down,
Guaranteed to make a smile and remove all frowns.
Love those MaMo iced sugar cookies.
MaMo’s Sugar Cookie Recipe
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
3 1/2 cups sifted flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Cream butter with sugar while adding eggs one at a time. Stir in vanilla and add dry ingredients mixing well. Chill 3 to 4 hours in refrigerator. Rollout in powered sugar with a little flour to stabilize. Cut with cookie cutters to desired shapes and bake on a ungreased cookie sheet at 375 degrees fahrenheit for 6 to 8 minutes. Let the cookies cool for a while and use desired icing colors to decorate those delicious little cookies to your hearts content.
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When our girls were growing up around home here,
Pam cleared the table for Sugar Cookies to prepare.
With our girls and their friends all just having a ball,
Making enough fancy iced Sugar Cookies for them all.
Making Sugar Cookies a while back at home.
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Recently Pam has revived that almost forgotten art,
Cooking sugar cookies with the Grandkids all so smart.
When we went down to Frisco, Texas, on our last trip,
Pam did sugar cookies with Luke and Zack’s small grip.
Zack and Luke
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We had also had Sarah over recently for about a week,
And Pam also made those sugar cookies then, so sweet.
Teaching her the techniques of her mother’s style,
Working together in the kitchen having fun all the while.
Sweet Sarah
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She made that fine cookie dough the night before,
Then she rolled it out on the island with help galore.
The kids then cut out the cookies with cutters so fine,
And put them in the oven to bake for the correct time.
What fun this is !
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They took those cookies out, cooked to golden brown,
And right then after they cooked, they ate a few on down,
The rest they let cool, then Pam put them in a stack,
To the side as they cut another Sugar Cookie batch.
Yummy, those look so good.
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When all the dough was gone, they mixed icing up,
And they decorated each cookie with their own touch.
Until they all looked so pretty with many fine colors,
Ready for me to eat then, so I let out a big holler.
Can we put Smiley faces on some of them?
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The grandkids had a ball with the sugar cookies so snappy,
As on Pam’s birthday, Luke made Pam real happy.
By writing her a poem about sugar cookies so kind,
That I will reproduce below for you all to now find.
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“MaMo is amazing and I love her so,
She is as sweet as a mouse ,
When I am at her house,
MaMo is the best I could ever wish for,
As a Grandma I always see smiling
When she answers the door.
Best Grandma Ever, Your Sugar Cookies are amazing”
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By Bill (with a little Luke)
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Thanks for reading Sugar Cookies,
Bill