Cream together the following ingredients at medium speed:

• 1 cup margarine

• 1 cup Sweetex or Crisco (Sweetex is a better name brand of Crisco available at Sarah’s)

• 3 cups granulated sugar

• 4 large eggs

• 1 Tablespoon vanilla flavor

• 1 Tablespoon butter flavor

Mix the following dry ingredients and add gradually to mixture above.  Mix until blended

• 7 cups all-purpose flour

• 2 teaspoons baking powder

• 1 teaspoon salt

Variation:  Can add orange or lemon zest for added flavor. Chill 6 hours or overnight. ( This dough keeps for 2 weeks if wrapped well and refrigerated)  Bake cookies at 325-350 degrees until cookie looks slightly brown at edges.

Yields:  40 medium (3″) cookies – bake 8-12 minutes or 25 large (4″x1″) cookies – bake approximately 20 minutes.

HELPFUL HINT:  Roll dough between 2 sheets of parchment paper; cut cookies and place on parchment paper to bake.  As cookies bake, you can prepare a new sheet of cookies to make a “quick switch” as cookies are done.