Recipe - Sandras M And M Cookies

3 cup Flour
3 teaspoon Baking powder
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
Three fourths cup Shortening
1 One fourth cup Sugar
2 Eggs, well beaten
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2/3 cup Milk
1 pound M&M candies

Here is my favorite recipe for M&M cookies. I got the basic cookie recipe
out of a children's cookbook that I got 2530 years ago. It was called
something like "The Secret of Cookies, Candies, and Cakes". Anyway, here's
my M&M cookies:

Sift flour and baking powder and salt. Cream shortening; add sugar
gradually and continue beating until light. Add wellbeaten eggs and blend
thoroughly; add vanilla. Add dry ingredients alternately with the milk; mix
well. Add M&M's. Chill.

Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 or 3 inches apart on a wellgreased baking
sheet. Bake at 400 for 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 5 dozen cookies.

This is really fun to do at Christmas using the red & green M&M's. Posted
to bakeryshoppe digest V1 Number 034 by Sandra Swinford
sswinfor@cecasun.utc.edu on Apr 17, 1997