Butter Balls.......from the Mennonite Treasury Recipes Cookbook

This recipe is from my well used Mennonite Treasury Recipes Cookbook. With the first printing in 1962, and knowing that the majority of these recipes predate the book, it is comforting to pull an occasional recipe from a tried and true time tested source.

This cookie is one that mom would make from time to time...a simple cookie and a bit like a vanilla wafer without the vanilla taste...now does that make sense?

Good for tea and dipping!

Butter Balls

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg, well beaten
• 2 tsp cream of tartar
• 1 tsp soda
• 2 cups flour

Cream butter and shortening and sugars thoroughly. Add well beaten egg. Sift dry ingredients and add. Mix well. Roll into small balls (they will flatten by themselves in the oven into perfect little dipping circles). Then bake for 15 to 20 minutes in a 350 oven. I found that 12 minutes was just right for my oven. Keep an eye on them and when they JUST turn brown, pop them out of the oven to cool on pan for two minutes and then slide them off onto a rack to finish cooling (to save the bottoms from scorching).