Mom'S Amish Sugar Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring
colored crystal sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 and spray cookie sheets with a non-stick cooking spray.
Mix shortening, sugar, and egg in a large bowl until well blended; add the flour and mix well.
Then add the baking soda, cream of tartar, vanilla, and almond flavoring; mix well.
Roll cookie dough in colored sugar and than form into a ball.
Put the balls on a cookie sheet and flatten out just a little bit.
Bake at 350 for 8 minutes.
Let them sit for a minute on the cookie sheet once done and then transfer them to a cookie rack.