Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies

Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:
2 cups of all-purpose flour, sifted
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 cup of soft shortening
1 cup of sugar
1 egg yoke
1/2 cup of buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
1 egg white, beaten stif f
Sift together flour, salt, soda. Cream shortening, suagr, and egg yoke until fluffy. Mix in flour mixture
alternately with buttermilk, then stir in vanilla. Fold in the egg whitess tj ubefore baking. Drop by
rounded tablespoons 3 inches apart onto a greased cookie sheet. Flatten to 1/2 inch thickness with
a fork in a cross pattern and sprinkle with a pinch of sugar. Bake 20 mins. until golden brown. Makes
2 1/2 dozen cookies.
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