Tea Cakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. sugar
1/2 c. shortening
2 eggs
2 c. self-rising flour
1 tsp. nutmeg

Preparation

Preheat oven
to 350\u00b0.
Mix sugar and shortening.
Beat in eggs.
Blend
in
flour
using
slow
speed
on mixer.
Add nutmeg.
Turn
onto floured cloth and add more flour as needed to make dough stiff.
Roll thin, cut, decorate if desired, and bake on greased cookie sheet 10 to 12 minutes at 350\u00b0.