Title: Ella Zeek's Sugar Cookies
Categories: Cookie Christmas
Yield: 48 Servings

3	c	All-purpose flour
1 1/2	c	Brown sugar
1/2	c	White sugar
1	c	Shortening
1/4	c	Milk
2		Eggs
2	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
1	ts	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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