Busters Recipes

Grandmother's Jelly Cookies
  
  1 1/2 cups sugar
  1 cup butter or regular margarine, softened
  1 egg
  1 1/2 tsp vanilla
  3 1/2 cups flour
  1 tsp salt
  3/4 cup jelly preserves
  
  In a large bowl, cream together sugar and butter until light and fluffy.  Add the egg and vanilla.  Beat well. Stir in the flour and salt.  Mix well.  Stir to make a smooth dough.  If batter gets too hard to handle, mix well hands.  Cover and refrigerate about two hours.  Preheat oven to 375 F.  Lightly grease baking sheets.  On a lightly floured board, roll out half of the dough to about 1/8 inch thick.  Cut out cookies with a 2 1/2 inch round cookie cutter.  Roll out remianing dough.  Cut with a 2 1/2 inch cutter with a hole in the middle.  Place  on prepared baking sheets.  Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned.  Cool about 30 minutes.  To serve, spread preserves on the plain cookies and top with cookies that have the hole in the middle.  Yield: about 3 dozen cookies