Title: Em's Sugar Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 70 servings
1 c Granulated sugar
1 c Shortening (half butter)
1 Egg; unbeaten
2 c Flour; unsifted
1/2 ts Cream of tartar
1 pn Salt
1 ts Vanilla
Cream sugar and shortening well. Add egg and mix well. Sift dry
ingredients together and add with the vanilla to shortening mixture. Mix
well. No need to chill dough. Roll into balls about 1 inch in diameter.
Place on greased cook sheets and flatten slightly with fingers. Press down
with a glass dipped in sugar or cookie press. Sprinkle with additional
sugar. Bake about eight minutes in a 350F oven. Cool on racks.
