Butter Cookies
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Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 4 T butter or oleo
- ¾ cup flour
- 4 T sugar
- ¼ t vanilla
- 1 T egg
- ¼ cup nuts
Instructions
- Cream butter until light and fluffy, add sugar and well beaten egg.
- Sift flour 4 times, then measure.
- Then add flour slowly to other mixture (by one tablespoon) add vanilla and work until smooth.
- Pinch off a piece of dough and place on an ungreased cookies sheet.
- Press flat with a floured fork.
- Place cookies one inch apart.
- Bake until cookies are golden brown around the edges.
- Moderate oven.