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Sweet, soft and simple. Today’s Homemade Holidays feature is a sentimental sugar cookie recipe from Anne Thoroughgood, who inherited these sweet treats from her mother via her grandma. This recipe previously appeared in the Teulon United Church Circle Cookbook circa 1953.

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Sweet, soft and simple. Today’s Homemade Holidays feature is a sentimental sugar cookie recipe from Anne Thoroughgood, who inherited these sweet treats from her mother via her grandma. This recipe previously appeared in the Teulon United Church Circle Cookbook circa 1953.

“We make cookies from this recipe for Christmas and Valentines. It is a fun family day each year,” writes Anne.

“Even COVID-19 did not stop us as my daughter distributed balls of dough to each family and we made cookies in our own kitchens and visited over FaceTime.”

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                                These sweet, simple sugar cookies are a family holiday tradition for Anne Thoroughgood.

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These sweet, simple sugar cookies are a family holiday tradition for Anne Thoroughgood.

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                                These sweet, simple sugar cookies are a family holiday tradition for Anne Thoroughgood.

EVA WASNEY PHOTO

These sweet, simple sugar cookies are a family holiday tradition for Anne Thoroughgood.

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