Recipe - Red White And Blue Cookies

One half cup Butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 One half cup Flour
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
One half teaspoon Baking powder
Red and blue food coloring

Cream together butter and sugar. Add in the egg and vanilla. beat well. Mix
in flour, baking powder and salt; divide dough into 3 equal balls. Put one
ball into a bowl and add 10 drops of red coloring. Mix. Do the same with
the blue. Stick them all together. Roll the balls of dough together until
it looks like a red, white and blue sausage about 8 inches long. Wrap dough
in waxed paper. Refrigerate overnight. Set oven at 400 degrees. Grease
cookie sheets and slice dough into One fourth inch thickness. Place on cookie
sheets. Bake for 8 minutes. Makes about 2 dozen. Posted to Bakery Shoppe
Digest145 by Chris & Karen sanburns@m2.sprynet.com on Jul 04, 1997