Butter Cookies -- To Decorate

BUTTER COOKIES - Ida Rasmussen 

1 cup sugar                           3 cups flour

1-cup butter                             1 tsp baking powder

2 eggs, beaten                      1/2 tsp. salt

Cream together butter and eggs.  Sift dry ingredients and add to mixture.  Chill 1 hour.  Roll to 1/8 inch thick.  Cut with cookie cutters.  Bake at 375 degrees to 8 minutes.

This is my Mom's Recipe.  It is the only one I use to decorate.  

You will have to watch the over -- 8 minutes doesn't sound like a lot  --- Just as the first one is getting sort of brown -- Pull them out.

Then Frost & decorate -- I bake them one day and decorate they next.  

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