Minerva Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 to 3 1/2 cups pastry flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

1. 1Cream shortening. Add sugar, egg well beaten, and three cups flour mixed and sifted with baking powder. Add vanilla. Add more flour if necessary, to make a stiff dough. Chill, roll very thin, and bake in a moderate oven until brown for 8 minutes at 325 degrees.