Grandmother's Sugar Cookies

Grandmother's Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup of butter.
2 cups of sugar.
2 eggs.
1 cup of milk.
2 teaspoonfuls of baking−powder.
1/2 teaspoonful of vanilla.

Directions:
Flour enough to roll out easily.
Rub the butter and sugar to a cream; put in the milk, then the eggs beaten together lightly, then two cups of
flour, into which you have sifted the baking−powder; then the vanilla. Take a bit of this and put it on the
floured board and see if it ``rolls out easily,'' and, if it does not, but is soft and sticky, put in a handful more of
flour. These cookies must not be any stiffer than you can help, or they will not be good, so try not to use any
more flour than you must.
They usually had tea for luncheon or supper at Margaret's house, but sometimes they had chocolate instead, so
these things came next in the cook−book.
Tea