Ingredients:

4 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 cup sugar
1 cup shortening
1 box currents
1 tsp vanilla
touch each of cinnamon, nutmeg, salt 
1 egg
milk 
sugar

Procedure:

Grease cookie sheet.
Mix first group of ingredients as though you were making pie dough.
Slightly beat egg in a cup & fill remainder of cup with milk.
Make into dough you can roll to 1/4 inch thickness.
Cut out with round cookie cutter. Place on cookie sheet. Sprinkle with sugar.

Bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees.