1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
Cream butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder together and add to creamed mixture. Mix soda in buttermilk and add to mixture, mix well. Roll out on floured paper, cut out the size you like. (In the old days they used a glass.) Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.
Note: I remember when Mama made these, we would eat the raw dough betwen the cut out cookies.