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.