Grandmother'S Tea Cakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. sugar
1 c. (scant) butter or Crisco
2 eggs
1 tsp. soda, mixed in 5 Tbsp. buttermilk
3 c. or more flour
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Cream sugar and butter; add eggs.
Add milk and soda mixture alternately with sifted flour and nutmeg.
Add vanilla.
Roll out not too thin; cut with cookie cutter.
Bake in 350\u00b0 oven until just done, but not too brown.
May be iced or sprinkled with sugar, if desired.
Add 1/2 teaspoon salt if Crisco is used instead of butter.