This is one of my favorite cookie recipe. I have taken it from my "Recipes from Old Virgina" cookbook. It was written in 1958...
Never Fail Cookies:
3/4 C shortening
2 Cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
Enough flour for stiff dough
3 tsps baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
Combine shortening and sugar and cream well. Add eggs and mix well. Add vanilla. Sift flour with baking powder and salt.
Blend throughly. Add nuts. Make into stiff dough an pinch off about size of marble, flatten with finger.
Bake in moderately hot oven (375) for 8 to 10 mins...
'enjoy'
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