Sugar Cookie Recipe

This is Mamie Eisenhower's recipe that I picked up when
we visited President Eisenhower's Library in Kansas.
(Courtesy of: Abilene Convention and Visitors Bureau)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 egg yolks
1 T. cream
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1-1/2 cups flour

Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt. Cream butter, add sugar
slowly and cream until fluffy. Stir in well-beaten egg yolks and vanilla.
Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with cream. Chill dough for one hour,
roll out and cut in any desired shape. Sprinkle with sugar before baking or
decorate with icing after baked and cooled.
Bake at 350°, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on wire rack.