Ingredients

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg yolk

1 1/2 cup flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp vanilla

pinch of salt

3 tsp milk or cream

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400 Cream butter; add sugar and mix well Add unbeaten egg yolk and vanilla; mix Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together and add to cream mixture alternately with milk (beginning and ending with flour mixture) Roll thin and cut out with small cookie cutters Bake in hot oven very briefly (5 minutes?) until light brown