White Cookies Recipe

Ingredients for White Cookies

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable shortening
• ½ cup thick sour milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon lemon extract
• Flour

Instructions

1. Cream vegetable shortening and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, soda mixed with sour milk, salt, extracts, and about 5 cups flour.
2. Roll very thin, cut with cookie cutter, lay on vegetable shorteninged tins, bake in moderately hot oven five minutes.
3. To keep any length of time, when cold, place in covered tin cans and set in cool place, and they will be as crisp as when first baked.
4. Sufficient for ninety cookies.