My sister Gail emailed this recipe to me last week:

Ruth, have you heard of the 1-2-3 cookie recipe? It is the basis for about any kind of cookie you would want to bake. The one, two, three are the amounts you would use to make the base dough for any number of cookies you want to bake.

1-2-3- Cookies

The mix is 1/3 shortening, 2/3 sugar, and 3/3 flour.

A basic for 24 cookies would be 1 cup shortening, 2 cups sugar, and 3 cups flour.

From there you add what you want in a cookie: nuts, chocolate powder or bits, raisins, spices, extracts, etc.

I made a batch and kept to the basic recipe. They were good, but bland and very crisp.

I made a second batch added two eggs, a tsp. of vanilla.

I rolled the dough into balls and then rolled them in Cinnamon Sugar. Voila!! Wonderful Snicker-Doodles. They were wonderful. Next batch will be nuts and chocolate pieces.

 

1-2-3-COOKIES

Basic mix for 24 cookies

1 c shortening
2 c sugar
3 c flour

2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

From here on, be inventive!

from Gail: “No oven heat was given, and no bake time. Probably because they change for the kind of cookie you are baking. I would bake a test cookie and adjust the heat and time from that - and be sure to eat the test cookie. YUM I didn't mention that you could use the dough for cut-out cookies by adding flour until dough is firm. ENJOY!”