Pflugerville resident Lydia Harris sends this month’s “historic recipe for brown sugar cookies that my grandmother got from her grandmother when Texas was still mostly open land. She baked them for all of her children, and grand- and great-grandbabies as they grew up.”
Makes: 12-15 cookies
Ingredients
· 1 1/2 cups flour
· 2/3 cup brown sugar
· 1 egg
· 1/4 cup melted butter
· 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
· 1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
· 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a big mixing bowl beat together the brown sugar, egg, butter and vanilla until its thoroughly mixed.
In a smaller bowl mix the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add that to the brown sugar mixture and stir it all together.
Scoop about one tablespoon of batter per cookie and drop onto cookie sheet about two inches apart.
Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. “Don’t burn the cookies because they’ll be too hard to eat unless you dip them in milk.
Enjoy these cookies at the table with a glass of milk or in a shady spot outdoors with lemonade, and think about how you’re living some yummy Texas history.”