Old Fashioned Cookie, just like Grandma made Recipe

Ingredients:

• 560 g (4 x 250 ml) cake flour
  200 g (250 ml) white Sugar
  10 ml cream of tartar
  2,5 ml salt
  250 g butter
  5 ml bicarbonate of soda
  30 ml milk
  2 eggs (Large)
  5 ml vanilla essence
  extra sugar for sprinkling

Method

Preheat oven to 180ºC.

1. Mix the flour, sugar, cream of tartar and salt together.
2. Rub the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
3. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the milk.
4. Beat the eggs and add the vanilla essence.
5. Add the bicarbonate of soda and beaten eggs to the flour mixture.
6. Mix well to form smooth dough.
7. Cover the dough with plastic foil and place in fridge for 30 minutes. 
8. On a lightly floured surface roll the dough out to 4 mm thickness and press out with cookie cutter of your choice. Mine was almost to thick, so be careful of that.
9. Place on greased baking tray.
10. Bake for 8 – 10 minutes until done.

Leave to cool and sprinkle with a little bit of white sugar. (Optional)

ENJOY!