from “Good Food” magazine. 

1 cup butter or margarine

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 cup oil

Pinch salt

1 tsp. vanilla

5 cups unsifted flour

2 tsps. baking soda

2 tsps. cream of tartar

Cream butter and sugar.  Add next 4 ingredients.  After measuring, sift dry ingredients together.  Mix well.  Roll into balls between palms of hands.  Roll ball in sugar and “smoosh” down with a fork, a decorative cookie marker or bottom of a glass dipped in sugar.  Bake 10 minutes in a 350-degree oven, or until lightly browned on edges. 

These spread out while baking, I don’t really recommend using a shaped cutter.  But they taste so good, nobody cares.  Do your art on top with icings.

Makes 5-6 dozen.