Shortbread Cookies Recipe

Ingredients for Shortbread Cookies

• 2½ cups flour
• ½ cup vegetable shortening
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Beat vegetable shortening, sugar, and salt to cream.
2. Add gradually egg well beaten, flour, and flavoring.
3. Knead lightly on floured baking board, then roll out one-fourth inch thick and cut into small rounds.
4. Mark them with fork, lay on vegetable shorteninged tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to fifteen minutes.
5. Sufficient for forty cookies.