Ella Zeek's Sugar Cookies

3 c All-purpose flour

1 1/2 c Brown sugar

1/2 c White sugar

1 c Shortening

1/4 c Milk

2 Eggs

2 ts Baking powder

1/2 ts Salt

1 ts Vanilla

Cream sugars and shortening. Add milk, vanilla and eggs and mix well. Stir in remaining ingredients and mix well. Refrigerate for about 1 hour. With floured hands roll teaspoonful of dough into a ball. Place on cookie sheet. With three fingres together, press ball flat, leaving ridges down the middle. Bake in 400?F oven for 9 to 12 minutes or until lightly gold. Ella was a neighbor who was ten years older than God when I was a child. She always had these in her cookie jar, and usually would bake a dozen every day since the dough keeps so well. It is one of my all time favorites and I have never tasted them anywhere else. -----