Butter Balls - not what you think

 

Cookies!!!!  And these are fantastic!!  OMG!!  OK - maybe I was hungry.  I started to comment that these are super easy, then I remembered I had to sift the flower TWICE.  I find several of my Grandma's recipes call for sifted flour.  Today's recipes hardly ever call for sifting flour.  Perhaps it's one of the things that have changed over time.  I am not sure if we have gotten lazy or the flour has changed.  Honestly, I see a difference and think we are just inconvenienced by the extra step.

Butter Balls

Cream 3/4c. butter with 1 cup brown sugar. Stir in 1 egg. Measure  2 cups sifted flour and resift into butter mixture with 1 tsp. baking powder.  Add 1 tsp. vanilla.  Roll dough into long roll, cut off piece size of hazel nut dip in granulated sugar, roll in hand until round, dip in sugar again and place on cooky sheet. Baking in 400° oven for 10 minutes. Watch carefully because because the balls brown quickly. Store dough in refrigerator.  Makes 4 dozen.

As you can see, this is yet another recipe on a bridge tally.  I have written the recipe to reflect exactly what is on the tally.  The use of "because because" cracks me up.  Even teachers make mistakes and misspell words, like cooky!  Bubba didn't have much to say about these - I sent him a couple dozen on a baseball road trip and he didn't have much to say.  I think he gave them all away.