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Sugar Cookies
¾ cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs ½ teaspoon vanilla 2 ½ cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together shortening, sugar, eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix flour, powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
To make shapes: Lightly dust a clean surface with flour. Roll out dough and cut into shapes. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Quick cookies: Form dough into walnut-sized balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Smash each ball with a flat-bottomed glass dipped in flour.
Bake for 6 – 8 minutes in a 350 degree oven.
Ice the cookies with purchased icing or make royal icing.
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