Bake Vanilla Wafers

Delicious vanilla wafer cookies can be made home using simple ingredients. For ease of rolling out the dough make sure to chill the dough before baking the cookies.

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup shortening, can use part butter for extra good flavor
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoons salt

Steps

  1. Cream the shortening, sugar and egg.
  2. Add milk and vanilla.
  3. Beat mixture together.
  4. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into the mixture.
  5. Mix until a cookie dough forms.
  6. Make Chocolate Chip Cookies (Good Eats Recipe).
  7. Roll out thin.
  8. Bake at 400 to 425 degrees F (hot oven) until light brown.
  9. The cookies should be thin and crisp when finished baking.
  10. Place on Make Raisin Cookies to cool.
  11. Makes 6 dozen small cookies.

Things You'll Need

  • Mixer
  • Measuring cups and spoons
  • Mixing bowls
  • Sifter or sieve
  • Rolling pin
  • Pastry cloth
  • Cooling racks
  • Oven mitts

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Sources and Citations

  • The Project Gutenberg EBook of Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4
  • by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

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