JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! (yum yum!)

Dear Family,
Everybody loves the famous Frosted Sugar Cookies. I can't take credit for the recipe, as it is the one the Cheryl posted in the old "dirty purple" Ozark Ward Cookbook, published way back in the seventies. I think I gave mine to Stace, or at least I intended to. If not, it's buried somewhere in one of those boxes out in the Benham garage. At any rate, I don't have it any more. So, this morning I started going through Lynnie's recipe cabinet and found this copy, in Yo Mama's own handwriting, with yo Mama's own grit and grime included. The 400 and 6-8 minutes looks like Lynnie wrote it. Anyway, now the recipe is officially available to all, right here in good old cyberspace! For those of you who don't care to decipher my scribbles, here is the recipe:

Frosted Sugar Cookies (Cheryl's recipe)

3/4 c. shortening (may use 1/2 shortening, 1/2 softened butter or margerine)
1 c. white sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 c. self-rising flour (the southern cook's favorite shortcut!)
1/2 t. vanilla

Dump all the above in your mixer and mix it up well. If you want to, you can do it by steps. You know, shortening, sugar, eggs, and vanilla on "cream" and then add the flour. Either way, chill your dough for an hour in the fridge before rolling out. You can fast chill it in the freezer.
Roll out dough on floured surfaced. Roll these thin if you like them like Yo Mama makes them. Be sure there is plenty of flour on the surface, or they will stick. Flour your cutters and go to town with them! Bake on ungreased cookie sheets at 400 for 6-8 minutes. Time and even temp depends on your oven. Cool on cooling rack or paper towel, not on foil. Frost and decorate when cool. Be sure and bring some over to share with Yo Mama!