Graham Cookies

Ingredients

 * ½ cup brown sugar
 * 4 tablespoons Crisco
 * 1 egg yolk
 * ¼ cup milk
 * ¼ teaspoon salt
 * ½ teaspoon vanilla
 * 1½ cups graham flour, measured before sifting, using the bran after the flour is sifted

Directions

 * 1) First beat together the sugar and Crisco, then beat in the egg yolk, salt, and vanilla.
 * 2) Stir in the flour and milk alternately.
 * 3) The dough should be so soft that it is difficult to handle.
 * 4) Sprinkle flour on the bread board.
 * 5) Put the dough on the flour, sift a little flour over the dough, then pat the dough into a ball.
 * 6) With a rolling pin roll it out a little less than one-fourth inch thick, and cut out with a cookie cutter.
 * 7) Place on an oiled pan and bake.