Old Fashioned Butter Cookies

💖 recipe from Ann Pillsbury 💖

makes 6 to 7 dozen

• 3 cups sifted AP flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup butter
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp cream or milk
• 1½ tsp vanilla

1. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
2. Cream butter and sugar.
3. Add egg, cream or milk, and vanilla. Beat well.
4. Blend in the dry ingredients gradually.
5. Chill dough for at least 1 hour.
6. Roll out on floured surface, one third at a time, to ⅛" thickness. Cut into desired shapes.
7. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Sprinkle with plain or colored sugars.
8. Bake at 400° for 5 to 8 minutes.

For Christmas Silhouettes

Add a few drops of red or green food coloring to half the dough. Leave remaining plain. Roll out white dough to ⅛" thickness. cut into rounds with 3" cutter. Cut out centers of cookie rounds with a smaller christmas shaped cutter. Repeat with colored dough. Transfer white centers to colored rounds and colored centers to white rounds.