This recipe comes from my Grandmother Ada. She made these cookies year round and kept them in a glass cookie jar on her kitchen counter. {You can see the recipe below...published in 1979 in a little country community cookbook} I double the recipe as my Grandmother suggests. And when you make cookies....always use real butter and real vanilla...the taste is so worth it!

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter

• 2 cups sugar

• 2 eggs

• 4 tbsp milk

• 2 tsp vanilla

• 3-1/2 cups flour

• 4 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp salt

Directions
1 In a bowl, mix the butter, sugar, eggs, milk and vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy.

2 In another bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, salt.

3 Add flour mixture to butter mixture gradually. Beat until mixed to form soft dough.

4 Roll dough into 1.5 inch balls. Flatten with a fork. Add Christmas sprinkles as desired.

5 Bake in 325 oven for 8-10 minutes. Let cool on cookie sheet for a few minutes. Then transfer to cooling rack.

Makes 3 1/2 dozen.