Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 c Butter or other shortening
2 c Sugar
3 ea Egg, well beaten
1/2 c Milk
1/2 ts Salt
4 c Flour
2 ts Baking powder
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Nutmeg

Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, and cream mixture until
light. Add eggs and beat thoroughly. Sift 3 cups of the flour with
the salt, baking powder and spices and add alternately with the milk.
Add more flour to stiffen may require up to 5 cups flour). Chill for
several hours. Roll very thin and cut with cookie cutters. Put on
greased baking sheet and bake at 450-F about 7 minutes. Source:
Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press,
1936.

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