Pound Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb vegetable shortening
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
5 cups flour
additional sugar, mixed with
cinnamon

Preparation

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
Mix all ingredients together, starting with the shortening and adding each one in order. You can do this by hand or with a heavy-duty mixer.
Roll dough into 1 1/2 inch balls.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Press with bottom of a small glass dipped in flour.
Bake 20 minutes.
When cookies are cool, dip in sugar-cinnamon mixture.