Name: Butter Cookies (Mitchell style)             Serves: ?dozens

Category: cookies             Cuisine: dessert            Source: mitchellfile

Ingredients:
1 lb. sweet butter
5 cups flour (sift)
2 Large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Cream together butter & sugar till smooth...
Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
Pour in flour slowly mixing throughly...

Wrap in wax paper a set in refrigerator for about an hour.
Pre-heat oven to 350 ...
Add some of the dough to cookie press and press away...If dough is too
hard, wait a few minutes and start again.  Change designs each time you
fill up.
Decorate with sprinkles before you bake.
Place on cookie sheet in middle of oven and bake approx. 7-15 minutes
or until golden...
You can change the flavor a little by dividing the dough in two and
adding some almond extract to replace 1/2 of the vanilla...