Spritz Cookies

1 cup butter or margarine, softened to room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp almond or vanilla flavoring
2-1/4 cups flour

Heat oven to 400F. Mix butter, sugar, egg, salt and flavoring thoroughly. Work in flour. Put dough into cookie press and press onto ungreased cookie sheet. (Dough needs to be quite warm to work.) Sprinkle with colored sugar before baking if desired. Bake 6-9 minutes or until set but not brown. Makes 5 dozen cookies.

From Betty Crocker's Cooky Book, 1963.