INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
DIRECTIONS
Cream butter until fluffy, adding sugar gradually. Add egg and vanilla. Beat well.
Sift flour, soda, salt, and cream of tartar. Blend into creamed mixture; mix well. Chill for 1 hour.
Roll out on floured surface and cut out cookies.
Bake in 400 degree F oven until light brown.
If your are going to use a cookie press, do not chill.
Recipe adapted from Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church Women’s Cookbook, 1996.
Contributed by Wende B.
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