Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

4 c. white flour
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 t. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 ½ c. sugar
1 tsp. soda
1 t. baking powder
¾ c. buttermilk
¾ c. shortening

Directions

Sift flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder. Add shortening. Combine dry ingredients and shortening like you would a pie crust, until it is about like cornmeal. In a small bowl combine eggs, vanilla, soda, and buttermilk. Add this to the dry ingredients. Mix with a fork until you can't mix anymore. Roll out on a bread board to ¼" thickness and cut with cookie cutters. Bake at 400° for only 7 minutes, no longer. This cookie is still white when fully cooked. Optional - You can add spices, coconut, chocolate chips, or raisins.