SHORTBREAD COOKIES for cookie press

Posted On December 23, 2010

Filed under Cookies, Shortbread

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Ingredients:

1  3/4 cups sifted all purpose flour

1/4 tsp. Salt

3/4 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg yolk, beaten

1 tsp. Vanilla

Sift flour and salt tog. Blend butter and sugar . Beat in egg yolk. Stir in vanilla and sifted flour. Mix well. Put through cookie press onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 deg. For 10 min. Or until browned.

The dough may be shaped into balls by hand and pressed flat with the tines of a fork. Cookies may be topped with nuts, cherries or choc.bits before baking.