Snickerdoodles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. soft shortening (part butter)
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 c. sifted Gold Medal flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 1/2 c. sifted confectioners sugar
1 c. butter
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. almond flavoring
2 1/2 c. sifted Gold Medal flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cream of tartar

Preparation

Mix sugar and butter.
Add egg and flavorings; mix thoroughly. Sift dry ingredients together and stir in.
Refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
Heat oven to 375\u00b0 (quick moderate).
Divide dough in half and roll out on lightly floured pastry cloth to 3/16-inch thick. (Roll very thin for crisp cookies.)
Cut as many cookies from each rolling as possible.
Sprinkle with sugar.
Place on lightly greased baking sheet.
Bake 7 to 8 minutes or until delicately golden.
Makes 5 dozen 2 to 2 1/2-inch cookies.