Desserts/old-fashioned sour cream cookies
From Recipes
Makes: 48 cookies
Active Time: 60 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours
From: Betty Crocker's Cooky Book, Fourteenth Printing, 1973
Ingredients
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 cup sour cream
Directions
Step 1
Heat oven to 425. Mix in shortening, sugar, egg, and vanilla thoroughly. Measure flour by dipping method or by sifting. Blend dry ingredients; add to sugar mixture alternately with sour cream. Divide dough; roll out to 1/4 thick on well floured pastry cloth. Cut with 2" cutter; place on greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned.
