Recipe - Ella Zeeks Sugar Cookies

3 cup Allpurpose flour
1 One half cup Brown sugar
One half cup White sugar
1 cup Shortening
One fourth cup Milk
2 Eggs
2 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Cream sugars and shortening. Add milk, vanilla and eggs and mix well. Stir
in remaining ingredients and mix well. Refrigerate for about 1 hour.
With floured hands roll teaspoonful of dough into a ball. Place on cookie
sheet. With three fingres together, press ball flat, leaving ridges down
the middle. Bake in 400øF oven for 9 to 12 minutes or until lightly gold.

Ella was a neighbor who was ten years older than God when I was a child.
She always had these in her cookie jar, and usually would bake a dozen
every day since the dough keeps so well. It is one of my all time favorites
and I have never tasted them anywhere else.

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