My great grandma has passed down this recipe to me. It took some time to determine the precise measures. Since the dough needs to chill for a few hours before using a cutter, these cookies are quite soft. A three-inch biscuit cutter is what I use. If you are pressed for time, you can easily omit these. Add colored sugar or other ornamental confections to the tops as desired. These are also excellent plain.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen large cookies |
Ingredients
- 1 cup lard
- 2 cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
- In a large bowl, cream together the lard and sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the buttermilk. The mixture will be very runny at this point. Combine the flour, baking soda, nutmeg and salt; stir into the buttermilk mixture by hand using a wooden spoon. Try not to over mix the dough or the cookies will be dense. Drop by spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets. For cut out cookies, the dough should be refrigerated for a couple of hours. Roll out to 1/2 inch thickness and flour your cookie cutter between each cut.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 228 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 33 g |
| Cholesterol | 24 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 166 mg |
| Sugars | 17 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This recipe is the actual worst ever. It’s not even a cookie-it comes out as a tasteless compound. The dough mixture comes out nice and well blended as your making it but it literally has no taste after baking. Hard and tasteless. Not even loads of frosting or extra sugar can help this. All positive reviews must be by the writer. Avoid this recipe it’s a waste of time and money!
It was very good. I’ve never had nutmeg in a cookie. Different but good
Made Grandma Tibbitts Sugar Cookies exactly as recipe calls for, and they are DELICIOUS!! Thank you for sharing your recipe!
yes these are the same ingredients my grandmother used in her cookies the butter milk is what really makes the recipe yummy you really have to look and find this recipe though
Amazing recipe! So happy I made this one! Can’t wait to make it again!
These cookies are really moist, and have a great nutmeg flavor. They were even a hit from my very picky kids!!