Sugar cookie dough is rolled into balls, dropped onto a dish of sugar, then flattened with a glass to make even discs.
Read the article by Sheryl Julian: Cookies make for sweet memories (Globe, Dec. 12)
Recipe: Sugar cookies (My mother's sugar cookies -Sheryl Julian)
(Food styling/Sheryl Julian and Karoline Boehm Goodnick; Mark Wilson/Globe Staff)

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