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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.