Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup crisco oil
• pinch of salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 2-1/2 cups unsifted flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, oil, salt, and vanilla. After measuring flour, sift together with other dry ingredients. Roll dough into balls. (Dough will be soft.) Roll ball in sugar and flatten with cookie cutters, decorative cookie markers or use a fork making criss-cross patterns on the cookies. Place on lightly greased baking pans and sprinkle with festive sugar crystals. Bake 10 to 12 minutes in a 350 degree oven. These cookies are not supposed to get brown, so do not overbake them. Recipe makes 5 dozen cookies.





"Our heats grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time."
~Laura Ingalls Wilder