Chicago Public School Cafeteria Butter Cookies

Hello, Darlings

This article is in remembrance of the old fashion butter cookies made and sold in my old Calumet high school cafeteria in Chicago for nearly one hundred years.

This being stated, if you were born any time before the 1970s in Chicago, you at some point or another, rushed to the cafeteria at your school to buy these cookies before they were sold out. And if you thought, like I did once, and only once, that you could buy them before your assigned lunch period, you were out of luck; because those lunch matrons knew every kid that came in their domain and guarded everything in it, as if they were the guarding the gold in Fort Knox.

And they would never forget your attempted butter cookies heist.

Without further ado here is that well beloved Chicago public school butter cookies recipe.

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Chicago Public School Cafeteria Butter Cookies

Ingredients

·         1 cup softened butter

·         2⁄3 cup granulated sugar

·         2 cups all-purpose flour

·         2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

·         2 teaspoons vanilla extract

·         1 pinch salt

·         4 teaspoons sugar (optional)

Directions

1.      Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.      Cream butter and sugar until fluffy

3.      Mix in vanilla extract.

4.      Mix in flour gradually.

5.      Using a small cookie scoop, roll dough into balls and slightly flatten on ungreased cookie sheets.

6.      Flatten cookies with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar if desired.

7.      Bake until golden brown (approximately 12-15 minutes.

Makes about 2 dozen

The original is at Chicago Public School Cafeteria Butter Cookies - Food.com

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Until next time,

           Chow, Darlings