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Sugar: Em's Sugar Cookies*

Source of Recipe


The Recipe Source






List of Ingredients



• 1 cup granulated sugar
  
• 1 cup shortening (half butter)
  
• 1 egg, unbeaten
  
• 2 cups flour, unsifted
  
• 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
  
• Pinch of salt
  
• 1 tsp. vanilla
  






Instructions



1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease cookie sheets.
   
   
2. Cream sugar and shortening well. Add egg and mix well.
   
   
3. In a medium bowl, sift dry ingredients together and add with vanilla to shortening mixture. Mix well.
   
   
4. No need to chill dough!
   
   
5. Roll balls about 1" in diameter.
   
   
6. Place on greased cookie sheets and flatten slightly with fingers. Press down with a glass dipped in sugar or use a cookie press.
   
   
7. Sprinkle with addtional sugar.
   
   
8. Bake for about 8 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Cool on wire racks.
   
   






Final Comments


YIELD: 3 Dozen