Sugar cookie

A sugar cookie, or sugar biscuit, is a cookie with the main ingredients being sugar, flour, butter, eggs, vanilla, and either baking powder or baking soda. Sugar cookies may be formed by hand, dropped, or rolled and cut into shapes. They may be decorated with additional sugar, icing, sprinkles, or a combination of these. Decorative shapes and figures can be cut into the rolled-out dough using a cookie cutter.

Name

The name Nazareth cookie came from the people of Nazareth, Pennsylvania who came from Germany. The cookie later took on other names in other countries. In England they were called sugar biscuits as well as jumbles. ==History==

History

Jumbles are the earliest form of sugar cookies. These cookies contained different spices such as aniseed, coriander, fennel and nutmeg. People used them as Christmas ornaments. People would cut out these sugar cookies into different shapes and hang them on their Christmas tree. In 1885, The Boston Globe published a recipe for sugar cookies that omitted liquid dairy ingredients, included baking powder, and had a ratio of one cup of sugar to one half cup of butter. File:SugarCookie.JPG|Dropped sugar cookie File:20061001 sugar cookies.jpg|Undecorated sugar cookies, rolled out and cut into the shape of a flower File:Sugarcookie.jpg|Dropped sugar cookie with a powdered sugar glaze and sprinkles File:Christmas Cookies2.jpg|The six-pointed stars are filled with hard candy. The others are decorated with frosting. File:Buttercream Filled Sugar Cookies (25618676884).jpg|Sandwich cookies made with sugar cookies and buttercream frosting ==Shapes==

Shapes

Sugar cookies take various shapes, depending on the type of sugar cookie. When a sugar cookie is dropped, they typically are in the shape of a circle. When they are rolled, cookie cutters are often used to form the cookies into different shapes, such as hearts or animals. ==See also==

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