Recipe - Grandmas Tea Cakes

1 cup Shortening
1 One half cup Sugar
3 Eggs
4 cup Allpurpose flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth cup Buttermilk
1 (up to)
1 One fourth teaspoon Almond extract
Sugar (optional)

Cream shortening, gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of an
electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.

Combine flour, baking powder, soda and salt; add to creamed mixture
alternately with buttermilk. Mix well. Stir in extract. Cover and chill 1
hour.

Roll dough to 1/4inch thickness on a floured surface. Cut with a
23/4inch round cookie cutter; place on greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350
degrees for 15 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Sprinkle with sugar,
if desired. Cool. Yields 4 dozen. Dorothy Burgess, Huntsville, TX.

SOUTHERN LIVING, JUL 90

From a collection of my mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which contained
lots of her favorite recipes, clippings, etc. Downloaded from Glen's MM
Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.