1 c. butter, softened
1/2 c. sugar
2 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg
1 tsp. almond extract or vanilla

Decorations: (Canned fruit slices or peels, colored sugars, currants, finely chopped nuts, nonpareils, raisins.)

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix butter and sugar. Mix in remaining ingredients except decorations.

Place dough in cookie press, form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet. Top with decorations. Bake until cookies are set but not brown. 6-9 minutes. Immediately remove from cookie sheet. About 5 dozen. Then can also be rolled out and use a cookie cutter.