Snickerdoodles

I've been in a cookie making mood lately, so I decided to make these for our Sunday evening treat. It's a page ripped out of a cookbook so I figured it would be pretty good.

1 c. soft shortening
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 1/4 c. all purpose flour, stirred and measured
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon


In large mixing bowl, cream shortening and 1 1/2 c. sugar; add eggs; beat until light and fluffy. Stir together flour, cream of tartar, soda, and salt; stir into shortening mixture until well blended. Roll dough into balls the size of small walnuts, then roll in mixture of 2 tbsp. sugar and 2 tsp. cinnamon. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies have barely flattened out and are slightly browned. (Cookies puff up at first, then flatten out with crinkled tops.) Makes 5 dozen 2-inch cookies.

These were yummy snickerdoodles. I do already have a recipe I like to use for snickerdoodles that is in a Gooseberry Patch cookbook, but this one was good, too.

I purposely halved the recipe so there would not not be 5 dozen (though I only got about 18 2 inch cookies) tempting me to eat them. Good thing, too, becau
se there were not very many left when we went to bed that night.