Em's sugar cookies

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       Title: Em's Sugar Cookies
  Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 70 servings
  
       1 c  Granulated sugar
       1 c  Shortening (half butter)
       1    Egg; unbeaten
       2 c  Flour; unsifted
     1/2 ts Cream of tartar
       1 pn Salt
       1 ts Vanilla
  
      Cream sugar and shortening well.  Add egg and mix well. Sift dry
   ingredients together and add with the vanilla to shortening mixture. Mix
   well.  No need to chill dough. Roll into balls about 1 inch in diameter.
   Place on greased cook sheets and flatten slightly with fingers. Press down
   with a glass dipped in sugar or cookie press.  Sprinkle with additional
   sugar.  Bake about eight minutes in a 350F oven. Cool on racks.
  
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