Christmas Sugar Cookies

Grandmother Dorothy's Sugar Cookie Recipe is delicious.  Who knows what will happen to the tattered, dirty note card, so here's to preservation!

2 Cups Sifted Flour
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 Cup Butter or Shortening
1 Cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 tsp Vanilla
1 Tbsp Milk
1/4 tsp salt

Sift 1 1/2 cups of flour with baking powder and salt.  Cream the butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and milk.
Mix well.  Add enough of the remaining flour to make a dough just thick enough to roll.  Chill.  Roll to about 1/8 inch thickness on a lightly floured board.  Cut, decorate.

Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes

**Cookies may be decorated with green strips of gum drops to resemble a candle.  Use red gum drop cut into a triangle for the flame.  (Before Baking).