Winning Sugar Cookies

Recipe is from a book I purchased at a library book sale. Great cookies! "Country Fair Cookbook. Every recipe a Blue Ribbon Winner." By the Food Editors of Farm Journal. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. "Rich, buttery sugar cookies that melt in your mouth." Picture: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/MiniMoke/001-35.jpg

• Ready In: 26 mins
• Serves: 20
• Yields: 84 cookies

Ingredients

• 1  cup butter or 1  cup regular margarine
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  cup  sifted confectioner's sugar
• 2  eggs
• 1  cup  cooking oil
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 4  cups  sifted flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in oil and vanilla.
2. Sift together flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt. Gradually add dry ingredients to creamed mixture; mix well. Chill dough in refrigerator 8 hours or overnight.
3. Shape dough in balls the size of a walnut. Place balls about 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
4. Bake in 350 degree oven 10 to 12 minutes or until done. Remove from baking sheets; cool on racks. Makes about 7 dozen.