Sesame Cookies

1 egg
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. sugar

1 c. sifted flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 c. sesame seeds

Cream egg, butter and sugar. Beat dry ingredients, sifted together, and vanilla in with mixer on medium speed. Stir in sesame seeds with spoon.

Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased cookie sheet (do not line with foil). Bake at 375 deg. exactly 8 minutes, until pale tan around edge. If uniformly shaped cookies are desired, cut with 2" cookie cutter immediately after removing from oven.

- Mrs. Heu de Bourck 1970
  Wash. State Historical Society