An annual affair at our house. Really glamorous cookies.
(This is how my family wrote the recipe)

6 cups sifted flour

1 teaspoon Salt

2 cups butter (1 lb.) no substitute!

2 cups granulated sugar

4 unbeaten eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1. Sift flour and salt together.

2. Cream butter until soft. Gradually add sugar, creaming after

each addition until it is light and fluffy.

3. Add eggs and vanilla to butter-sugar mixture and mix well

(may become lumpy but keep mixing until lumps are small)

4. Add flour-salt mixture a little at a time and mix well.

5. Cover bowl and refrigerate at least 5 hours.

6. Roll out dough to ⅛ inch thickness. Use a small portion of

dough at a time and be sure to flour your board,

rolling pin, and cutters often or dough will stick to board.

7. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters, dipping them in four each time.

8. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 for about 10

minutes or until light brown around the edges.

9. When cool, frost as described below.

10. We use as cutters a star, a bell, a gree, and a gingerbread

boy who makes a fine Santa.

11. Makes 70 to 90 cookies depending on which cutters you choose

Frosting for Christmas Cookies

4 egg whites

½ teaspoon Cream of Tarter

½ teaspoon vanilla

5 cups sifted confectioners sugar

Candy cake decorations and food coloring

Now comes the fun!

1. Beat egg whites with cream of tartar and vanilla until foamy.

2. Gradually beat in the sifted powdered sugar until frosting stands

in firm peaks

3. Now gather the family around the table.

4. Divide the frosting among 5 custard or teacups. Tint 4 of the

cups with food coloring

- red, blue, green, and yellow. If necessary use more than 1 bottle

of the colloring each because

you want bright colors! The 5th cup will be white

5. Place an individual butter spreader or small knife in each cup.

6. Have several bottles of cake decorations nearby.

7. Now you are ready! Give each cookie a complete color job. Green

Christmas Trees then have garlands

of all colors- and ornaments of cake decorations. Each star is gaily

colored - perhaps striped - and maybe

has multi-colored tips.
Dots and designs of all kinds grace your bells. Santa is complete

with white beard and belt, blue eyes,

and buttons down the front. My husband delights our children with

his gingerbread boy transformed into

a sailor in blues, proudly wearing his campaign ribbons!

8. These are really gay. Just be sure you give each cookie a complete

coating. None of the cookie itself

should show - just the decorative frosting. Have fun - and let your

imagination have a field day.

(if frost hardens, add a few drops of hot water)