Old-Fashioned Tea Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 12 c vegetable shortening
• 1 c sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp buttermilk
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 12 c self-rising flour
• sugar for topping

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325
2. Mix together everything except the flour
3. Stir in flour just to mix and roll out the dough
4. Cut into desired shapes
5. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets for 12 minutes
6. Remove from oven and sprinkle tops with sugar before removing cookies from pan
7. Cool on wire racks