Butter Cookies
Bertha Leuschpage 5
Ingredients
- 1/2 Pound Butter
- 7/8 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 2 and 1/2 Cups Cake Flour
- Egg White
- 1 Egg plus 1 Yolk
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
Instructions
Cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg and yolk and beat until combined. Sift together the flour and baking powder and add slowly to the creamed mixture. Add the vanilla and mix in. Chill the dough for at least 2 hours. Roll dough out thinly. Cut dough into shapes using small Cookie Cutters, in circle or star shapes. Brush the cookies with egg white and bake at 375 degrees for about 10 minutes.