A sugar cookie recipe that has been passed down in one family for five generations is going viral on social media this week, as internet users can’t get enough of it!

Samantha Black explained that the recipe dates back to her great-great-grandmother, Lewellyn Kerstetter, who was born in 1889 and raised four daughters in Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. Kerstetter, who was the granddaughter of German immigrants, worked various odd jobs to support her family, doing things like working as a typesetter and a soda fountain server.

One of Kerstetter’s favorite things to do for her family was cook and bake for them. Her sugar cookie recipe was so good that it has stood the test of time and been passed down from generation to generation within the family. The recipe has since become an online sensation after Black posted it to the Old_Recipes subreddit.

“These cookies are part of Christmas memories for me and my sister and cousins,” Black told TODAY Food. “At the holidays, the kids would sleep in the basement and wake up to our parents and aunts and uncles laughing so loudly in the kitchen above us. We never minded though, as the morning after the reunion we got to eat cookies for breakfast.”

Black added that she won’t be able to see her family for Christmas this year because of COVID-19, but enjoying the comments that have been pouring in online about the recipe has become a surprising way for her to connect with her mother during this pandemic.

A reporter with Yahoo News made the cookies herself from Kerstetter’s recipe, and this is how it went for her:

Kerstetter’s cookies are made from basic sugar cookie ingredients, with cream of tartar going into the mix of flour, sugar, eggs and oil. After mixing up some batter and refrigerating it for a full day, my cookies were ready to bake.

This dough rolls out smoothly and bakes in just eight minutes on 350 F. I decorated my cookies with holiday sprinkles prior to baking, but these firm-on-the-outside, chewy-on-the-inside delights would be perfect for decorating with icing, too.

The flavor of the cookies is buttery and sweet, and warm from the oven, my kids could not get enough of them.

While Black said that she’s excited that people love the cookies, she can’t say that she’s surprised.

“My family has always been about sharing this recipe, as we all really feel they’re the best sugar cookies ever,” she said. “I thought a few people might enjoy making them and perhaps could start new traditions for their holidays — something about sugar cookies is so quintessentially Christmas.”

“I didn’t expect so many people to want to try them, but looking back I am not that surprised, as they really are a damn good cookie,” Black concluded.