1 cup butter
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup powdered sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
4 cups flour
6 Tbsp lavender

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream together butter, Crisco vegetable oil, sugars, then add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Grind up lavender in a food processor. Mix flour, baking soda, cream of tartar. Add lavender. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture. Drop by small spoonsful onto the cookie sheet, then flatten each cookie with a sugar coated fork. Bake 10-12 minutes. These cookies freeze well. Lavender flowers may be ordered from the Frontier Co-Op catalog.

Lavender is a relaxing herb to help calm us during stressful times or before bedtime.