Spritz Cookies

1 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 1/4 cup sifted flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp almond flavoring

Cream the butter and add the sugar gradually. When sell-mixed, add egg and beat until light and fluffy. Sift flour, and then sift a second time with the baking powder and add gradually to the creamed mixture. Add almond flavoring and mix well.

Put in a cookie press with the desired plate and press out on un-greased cookie sheet. Sprinkle cookies with colored sugar if desired before baking. Bake in a 400 degree oven F about 12 minutes or until set (not brown). Makes 5 dozen cookies.

Source: handwritten recipe card created during teen age years while learning cooking and baking from my mother (with misspelled Spritz). I am still using the original Mirror brand cookie press that belonged to my mother.and still have the orignal box and contents (except for the recipe booklet).  The box for the cookie press still has the sales tag on it that says it was bought on Broadway from Stattler Dept Store and sold for $2.59. This must have been a gift to my mother from Aunt EllaMay or Aunt Edna since my aunts often shopped in the high end dept stores and had been to NYC. To the best of my knowledge my mother never went to NYC but the aunts both did.