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I have my grandma's Betty Crocker Cookie book (copyright 1963) and there is a Mary's Sugar Cookies with confectioners' sugar... (It's right beside the Ethel's Sugar cookies)

Is this it?

Mary's Sugar Cookies

From Mary Herman... made with confectioners' sugar

1 1/2 cups of sifted confectioners' sugar

1 cup butter or margarine

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 tsp. almond flavoring

2 1/2 cups of Gold Medal Flour

1 tsp. soda

1 tsp. cream of tartar

Mix sugar and butter. Add egg and flavorings;mix thoroughly. Measure flour by dipping method or by sifting. Stir in dry ingredients together and blend in. Refridgerate 2 to 3 hours.

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Divide dough in half and foll 3/16" thick on lightly floured pastry cloth. Cut with cooky cutter; sprinkle with sugar. Place on lightly greased baking sheet. Bake 7-8 min., or until delicately golden. Makes 5 doz. 2 to 2 1/2 cookies.

Note if you use gold Medal Self-Rising Flour, omit soda and cream of tartar.

Thank you so much.  I was given a Betty Crocker cookbook with this recipe in 1969 but am in the process of moving and don't know which box I put it in.  In fact, my screen name on this site is the lady who gave me the cookbook for my wedding shower (now you have an idea of my age). These sugar cookies are wonderful!  This is why I was looking for this recipe for Thanksgiving; my grown boys would not understand not having the cookies over the holidays.  Worth the touble!

Again, thank you!  Linda in Surry, Virginia

I'm so glad you posted this recipe.  I've been searching for my old red binder Betty Crocker cookbook that I've relied on for years and it is lost in a box somewhere in the garage due to a recent partial remodel of the house.

so ty, ty ty ... I've got a son coming home on leave from the Marines for an entire week at Christmas and I just have to make some of these cookies for him ... as others have said before me "it's a family tradition."

Too bad those of us looking couldn't find it on the Betty Crocker site directly.

But Thanks again and God Bless.  Merry Christmas.

Sandy Jayne Brown

No problem lucygreen and Sandy_Brown. Happy to help!

Happy Holidays! Sincerely, Cate

Ethel's Sugar Cookies

3/4 cup Butter; softened
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups Flour; sifted
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
Sugar; for dusting (optional)

Thoroughly mix together the butter, sugar, eggs, and flavoring of choice. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir into the butter mixture. Chill for at least 1 hour. Roll out to 1/8-inch thickness. cut into desired shapes with cookie cutter dipped in flour. Re-roll the scraps and continue cutting until all of the dough is used. Place on an ungreased baking sheet. Sprinkle with sugar, if desired. Bake in a moderate/hot (400F) oven until delicately golden, about 6 to 8 minutes. Makes about 4 dozen 3-inch cookies.

VARIATIONS:
Lemon Sugar Cookies: Follow the basic recipe above, except use 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind and 1 teaspoon lemon juice in place of the flavoring.

Filled Sugar Cookies: Follow the basic recipe above except put together in pairs before baking with 1 tablespoon filling of your choice or a solid chocolate mint wafer between. Press the edges of the cookies together with the tines of a fork.

Nut Sugar Cookies: Follow the basic recipe above except mix 1 cup of finely chopped nuts into the dough.

I am so grateful to find this recipe.  My son is absolutely devastated without these cookies for Christmas -- it has been a tradition always, and he is 40 years old!  I don't have my old, old cook book anymore, and I am lost without it.  It isn't the same using the cookie mix packets, is it!

Thanks, Judith Vidal, Palm Bay, Florida