Anna's Cookie (Standard Pressed Cookies)

1 1/2 cup butter

1 cups sugar

2 eggs

3 1/2 cups flour

pinch of baking soda

1 vanilla

1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring

Press onto cookie sheet. Bake at 475 degrees F.

Note:

    Mother named these Anna's cookies because Anna Choma helped her make them. I think Anna was better at operating the cookie press than Mother was. They used food coloring to color the cookie red and green and decorated them with colored sugar and silver and gold sugar pearls. Anna's cookies went in the teacher's Christmas cookie assortment to make them look pretty. Mother liked making these much more than the cut out cookies because they were much easier.

   Anna Choma was in a concentration camp during World War II. Sometime in 1949, my parents sponsored her and her family (Anton, husband; Weldy, son; and Helena, daughter). They lived across the road. The children were my playmates. Stephan, Stevie, came along in 1953. He was baby brother to all of us.