Playdough cookies

If you bake cookies, you probably already have a favorite sugar cookie recipe. Here's one that my girls have loved for years. We used to buy these at the grocery store; but one day the local newspaper printed recipe (cut down for a home kitchen). They are usually sold pink/yellow/green. Around patriotic holidays they sell them red/white/blue, and in the fall they are brown/orange/yellow. You get the idea. You will need a kitchen scale to measure the ingredients.

PLAYDOUGH COOKIES
2 lbs sugar
2 lbs shortening
2 lbs, 14 oz. cake flour
1/2 ounce baking soda
1/2 ounce salt
3 medium size eggs
Almond flavoring to taste
Food coloring

Mix all ingredients well scraping the bowl often. Divide the dough into three piles. Mix food coloring into the dough and roll each piece of dough into a thin roll - like thick spaghetti. Press the different colors into each other to make one round thick roll. Slice 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick. Place on parchment paper and bake on cookie sheet in 350° oven about 12 minutes. The end result should look like tie-dye coloring.

I wish I could show a picture of these, but they don't last at our house........