Old-Fashioned Tea Cakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 egg
1/2 c. vegetable shortening
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. buttermilk
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 c. self-rising flour
sugar for topping

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325\u00b0.
Mix together everything except the flour.
Stir in flour just to mix and roll out the dough.
Cut into desired shapes.
Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 12 minutes.
Remove from oven and sprinkle tops with sugar before removing cookies from pan.
Cool on wire racks.