Old Fashioned Tea Cakes

1 cup butter (no substitutions)

1 3/4 up sugar

2 eggs

3 cups flour

1/2 teas baking soda

1/2 teas salt

1/4 teas ground nutmet

1 teas vanilla

In bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. Stir into the creamed mixture. Knead dough for a few minutes on a floured board until smooth. Cover and refrigerate until firm.

Preheat oven to 325. On a lightly floured surface *(this is where I deviated from the recipe and used the shape and cut method), roll the dough hout to 1/4 ” in thickness. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Place cookies 1 1/2 ” apart onto cookie sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the oven. Allow to cool on cookies sheets for 5 min before removing and putting on a wire rack to cool completely. I sprinkled powdered sugar over half of mine and the other half, I used cinnamon sugar to sprinkle over before baking………