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Smooth Sailing Sugar Cookies

Submitted by: Martha Conaway 
With a fresh breeze, my longtime-favorite sugar cookie recipe got under way on a new track. I cut out sailboats and frisky fish, frosting them brightly for the nautical gathering. My guests ate their limit! -Martha Conaway, Pataskala, Ohio 

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Amish Sugar Cookies

Submitted by: Sylvia Ford 
These easy-to-make cookies simply melt in your mouth! I've passed the recipe around to many friends. After I gave the recipe to my sister, she entered the cookies in a local fair and won the 'best of show' prize! 

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Simple Sugar Cookies

Submitted by: Maxine Guin 
Powdered sugar takes the place of granulated sugar in this sweet standby from Maxine Guin of Barnhart, Missouri. 'I received the recipe for this tasty cookie from a cook I worked with at our local school,' she recalls. 

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Crisp Lemon Sugar Cookies

Submitted by: Dollie Ainley 
I have had this recipe for about 40 years, and in that time I've made a few changes. These cookies are my husband's favorite, so I bake them for him almost every week. One of my daughter's friends still remembers having these special treats when she stopped in on her way home from school. -Dollie Ainley, Doniphan, Missouri 

Maple Nut Date Cookies

Submitted by: Joyce Palmer 
I can't resist these soft cookies topped with a maple-flavored frosting. Dates, pecans and coconut add some unexpected wholesomeness. 

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Frosted Maple Cookies

Submitted by: Connie Borden 
Living in New England, I've come to appreciate the unique qualities of our area. Many people here enjoy the flavor of maple in their recipes, and I love this adaptation of an old favorite. 

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Grandma's Sugar Cookies

Submitted by: Kristy Deloach 
This is one of my great-grandmother's recipes that I received years ago from one of my great-aunts. We bake these cookies for holidays and other special occasions. I have fun at Christmas cutting the cookies with holiday cookies cutters and decorating them with colored sugar and icing, then wrapping them in colored plastic wrap and giving them to friends. 

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Deluxe Sugar Cookies

Submitted by: Dawn Fagerstrom 
'Christmas cutouts signal the season for our family,' relates field editor Dawn Fagerstrom of Warren, Minnesota. 'Usually I 'paint' these with colorful icing - or if time's short, I simply sprinkle them with colored sugar.' 

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Crisp Sugar Cookies

Submitted by: Evelyn Poteet 
'My grandmother always had sugar cookies in her pantry,' recalls Evelyn Poteet of Hancock, Maryland, who now regularly bakes these wonderful cookies to share with friends. 'We grandchildren would empty that big jar quickly because those cookies were the best!' 

Jelly-Topped Sugar Cookies

Submitted by: June Quinn 
On busy days, I appreciate this fast-to-fix drop sugar cookie. Top each cookie with your favorite flavor of jam or jelly. --June Quinn, Kalamazoo, Michigan 
 
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