Christmas Cutouts

This is my mother-in-law's Christmas Cutout recipe. The husband was looking for it today. When he couldn't find it he started ranting and raving . . . "Christmas was ruined," "Now I can't make any cookies at all," throw the metal bar stool and threw himself into his recliner and pouted.

Now, I know the recipe has to be somewhere UNLESS he decided to unhook it from his mother's other recipes and didn't put it back (which is totally possible. He loses his wallet at least once a week. The man REFUSES to put it back in the same place each time he takes it out of his pocket OR when he takes it out of the car where it normally is.) 

Even IF it had become lost forever I know his sister has the recipe because they have discussed how hers are different than his (she rolls her's thinner) but he was so mad he wouldn't listen.

Once he calmed down, i got her number ready and he called her cell. She and her husband were on the road from her daughter's house (normal 8 hour drive and they had already been on the road 6 hours) in a horrible snow storm that wasn't expected to be that bad. 

I had just found the recipe, exactly where it has ALWAYS been since I made these laminated recipe cards for him for our 1st Christmas. How he had looked over it (the first in a pack of 14 cards) is beyond me. Except, I know when he is looking for something, somehow, it could bite him on the nose and he still wouldn't see it.

Poor Husband . . . one day he will have a heart attack when he gets this way and there will be nothing I can do to prevent it :(

1 C Butter

4 Eggs

1 tap Baking Soda

1 tsp Vanilla

1 C Granulated Sugar

3 T Water

1 tsp Salt

1 C Brown Sugar (sifted)

6 C Cake Flour

1 tsp Nutmeg

1. In LARGE bowl, cream butter well
2. Add white sugar and sifted brown sugar slowly to butter. Cream Well.
3. Beat eggs, add water and vanilla.
4. Mix and sift dry ingredients, add alternately with wet ingredients to creamed butter and sugars.
5. Chill at least 1/2 hour to a max of 24 hours. (Can also be frozen then thawed when needed.
6. Roll on floured, cloth covered board to 1/8" (+/-) thickness. Cut out in assorted shapes.
7. Bake in a moderate (350 degrees F) for 10 minutes (+/-) until light brown on the bottom.
8. Let cool and decorate.

Here's hoping your Christmas baking, wrapping, decorating, or whatever your Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, or your holiday of choice traditions start better than ours did.