---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01
 
      Title: Cut-Out Cookies
 Categories: Cookies, Holiday
      Yield: 48 cookies
 
      1 c  Butter or margarine
  1 1/2 c  C and H Powdered Sugar
           -- unsifted
      1    Egg
      1 ts Vanilla
  2 1/4 c  All-purpose flour
      1 ts Baking powder
 
  Soften butter and beat until creamy.  Beat in sugar until smooth.  Add egg
  and vanilla; mix well.  Stir in flour and baking powder until thoroughly
  mixed.  Chill 2 to 3 hours.  Roll dough thin on floured board.  Cut into
  desired shapes.  Bake on ungreased cookie sheet in 375-degree oven 8 to 10
  minutes.  To frost: Beat one egg white until foamy.  Beat in 1/2 cup
  unsifted C and H Powdered Sugar.  Tint with food coloring.  Paint cookie
  with frosting BEFORE baking.  Makes 4-dozen cut-out cookies.
  
  Reprinted with permission from:
  Powdered Sugar Cookies from the C and H Sugar Kitchen
  by Jean Porter
  Electronic format by Karen Mintzias
 
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