Snickerdoodles Recipe

Yield: about 5 dozen
1 cup Shortening (Crisco or Swiftning)
1-1/2 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
2-3/4 cup sifted Flour
2 tsp Cream of Tartar
1 tsp Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
Mix shortening, sugar and eggs well. Sift dry ingredients together
and add to first mixture. Chill dough. Roll into balls size of small
walnuts. Then roll balls in mixture of 2 Tbsp sugar and 2 tsp
cinnamon. Place about 2 inch apart on ungreased sheet. Bake
until light brown but still soft. Bake in 400° for 10 minutes. These
cookies puff up at first and then flatten out with crinkled tops.