Snickerdoodles

Mix together thoroughly:

1 cup shortening

1½ cups sugar
2 eggs

Sift together and stir in:

2¾ cups flour

2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp soda
½ tsp salt

Chill dough. Roll into balls the size of small walnuts. Roll in a mixture of

2 Tbsp sugar
2 tsp cinnamon

Place about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes in 400° oven, until lightly browned but still soft. These cookies puff up at first and flatten out with crinkled tops. Makes 5 dozen 2-inch cookies.

This is the recipe I used to make on Sunday nights so we would have cookies for our lunches. Mom’s recipes are the best!—Peggy