Sugar Cookies I

Ingredients

 * 3 	cup  	all-purpose flour
 * 1 1/2 	cup 	brown sugar
 * 1/2 	cup 	white sugar
 * 1 	cup 	shortening
 * 1/4 	cup 	milk
 * 2 		eggs
 * 2 	tsp 	baking powder
 * 1/2 	tsp 	salt
 * 1 	tsp 	vanilla

Directions
cream sugars and shortening. Add milk, vanilla and eggs and mix well. Stir in remaining ingredients and mix well. Refrigerate for about 1 hour. With floured hands roll teaspoonful of dough into a ball. Place on cookie sheet. With three fingres together, press ball flat, leaving ridges down the middle. Bake in 400°F oven for 9 to 12 minutes or until lightly gold. Ella was a neighbor who was ten years older than god when i was a child. She always had these in her cookie jar, and usually would bake a dozen every day since the dough keeps so well. It is one of my all time favorites and i have never tasted them anywhere else.