Grandmother'S Sugar Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup Crisco shortening
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt

Preparation

Cream Crisco and sugar.
Add eggs and vanilla.
Mix in dry ingredients.
Touch dough with your finger. If any dough sticks to your finger, add flour a little at a time until when you touch the dough, none comes off on your finger.
On a lightly floured linen towel, roll out dough to between 1/8 and 1/4-inch thick.
bake at 350\u00b0 for 8-10 minutes or until edges of cookies BEGIN to turn golden brown.
Let cool on cookie sheet.
Decorate as desired.