Bran Cookies

From Hot Off the Griddle #27, May 1994…but the original recipe is much older!

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 3/4 cup raw sugar
• 1 Tbsp cream or milk
• 1 egg
• 2 tsps baking powder
• 2 cups plain bran
• 1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• pinch of salt
• 1 tsp vanilla

METHOD

1. Cream the butter and sugar, add the well-beaten egg, the cream, bran, flour, baking powder, salt and vanilla.
2. Mix together 1/2 cup (extra) each of bran and flour to use in rolling out.
3. Roll only a third of the dough at a time, about 1/4 inch thick, and cut with a tin cookie cutter.
4. Bake at about 350F, about 12 minute (until golden brown).

Makes about three dozen very healthy cookies!