Butter Cookies

[Grampa & Gramma]

Cream: 1 Cup butter or oleo
1/2 Cup sugar
Add: 1 beaten egg
2 teaspones vanilla
Mix together
3 Cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt

Stir into creamed mixture gradually. Roll one
half the dough 1/8 inch thick on lightly
floured board. Cut out cookies.

Bake at 350 degrees F 12-15 minutes.

We usually double for a large group!

[Grampa & Gramma]

Frost with Becky's Icing: (Dorothy Babcock recipie)

4 Cups cofectioner's sugar (powdered sugar)
1/4 Cup butter
2 unbeaten egg whites
1 tablespoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon cream of tarter

Sift sugar, add butter, cut and work like pastry.
When it looks like corn meal add 2 unbeaten egg whites
and other ingredients.
The more you beat the better.

Color portions and decorate (butter cookies and gingerbread) with a decorator tube.

We usually make 1 1/2 recipies. Surplus frosting is good on graham crackers!

[Michael]

Mine this year.

[Michael]

Mathilda "frosting"cookies.