SUGAR COOKIES

Mix together thoroughly:        2 cups butter

                                                2 cups sugar

                                                4 eggs

Stir in:                                     4 TBS milk or cream

                                                4 tsp vanilla

Sift together and stir in          5 cups flour

                                                4 tsp cream of tartar

                                                2 tsp baking soda

                                                1 tsp salt

Chill dough. Roll very thin. Place on a lightly greased baking

sheet. Your can decorate with candies and sugar before baking

or ice and decorate after.

Bake at 425 for 5 to 7 minutes.

This is a recipe from the 1950 Betty Crocker's Cookbook.

This was the one used by Betty Vaughan.

Icing for the cookies is a confectioners' sugar and milk mix and colored

what ever color you want.

RUSSIAN TEA CAKES

Mix together thoroughly:    2 cups soft butter

                                            1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar

                                            2 tsp vanilla

Sift together and stir in      4 1/2 cups sifted Flour

                                           ½ tsp. Salt

Mix in                                     1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

Chill dough. Roll into 1" balls. Place 2" apart on an ungreased baking sheet.

Bake until set not brown. While still warm, roll in confectioners' sugar. Cool.

Roll in sugar again.

Bake at 400 for 10 to 12 minutes.

This recipe is in the 1950 Betty Crocker Cookbook.

Betty Vaughan used this recipe.She always made the balls good sized so that they were more than a mouth full.

Betty's Brownies

Betty's Brownies

Melt together 2 sticks of butter (yes butter only) and 4 squares of semi-sweet chocolate

Add 2 cups of sugar
        4 eggs beaten

add 1 1/2 cups flour
       2 tsp salt
       2 cups chopped pecans
        2 tsp vanilla

Bake at 350 in a 9 x 13 floured pan for 30 minutes.
Ice with chocolate icing. we use Betty Crocker

Betty found this recipe in The Columbus Dispatch in the the 1940's.I still have the original.
This has become a family and church supper favorite.