Betty Crocker – Old-Time Cinnamon Jumbles

Ingredients

• ½ cup soft shortening (113g half Lard, half butter)
• 1 cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• 1 egg
• ¾ cup buttermilk (180ml)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups sifted GOLD MEDAL Flour (approx. 220g plain flour)
• ¼ tsp. soda
• ½ tsp. salt

Method

1. Mix together the shortening, sugar, and egg.
2. Stir in the buttermilk and vanilla.
3. Sift together and stir in, the flour, soda and, salt.
4. Chill dough.
5. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls about 2″ apart on lightly greased baking sheet.
6. Sprinkle with mixture of sugar and cinnamon (¼ cup sugar (approx. 50g) and 1 tsp. cinnamon).
7. Bake until set but not brown.

Baking

• Bake in a mod. hot oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
• 190°C–200°C, 375°F–400°F , Gas Mark 5–6, Fan 170°C–180°C

Quantity

• About 4 doz. 2″ cookies.

Title

Betty Crocker Picture Cooky Book

Author

General Mills Company – Betty Crocker was not a real person; she was a fictional persona created in 1921 by the Washburn-Crosby Company (which later became General Mills).