Recipe - Crisp Cookies

1 cup Butter or other shortening
2 cup Sugar
3 Egg, well beaten
One half cup Milk
One half teaspoon Salt
4 cup Flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Nutmeg

Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, and cream mixture until light.
Add eggs and beat thoroughly. Sift 3 cups of the flour with the salt,
baking powder and spices and add alternately with the milk. Add more flour
to stiffen may require up to 5 cups flour). Chill for several hours. Roll
very thin and cut with cookie cutters. Put on greased baking sheet and bake
at 450F about 7 minutes. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book Fine Old
Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.

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