Grandma burdick's sour cream cookies

48 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1½ cup Sugar
2 larges Eggs
½ cup Shortening
1 cup Sour cream
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
3 cups All-purpose flour
1 tablespoon Baking powder
½ teaspoon Salt

Directions

Cream sugar, eggs and shortening. Combine sour cream, baking soda and vanilla; add to creamed mixture. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Drop by heaping tablespoonful onto a greased baking sheet. Bake at 350°F for 8 to 12 minutes. For variety, add chocolate chips, raisins or nuts to the dough before baking. To make rolled cookies, add 1 cup of flour to the dough, chill, then roll out and cut into shapes.

NOTES : This is an old family recipe submitted by a reader of the Bee. The cookies are an old-fashioned, cake-style cookie that can be baked in drops or rolled and shaped for decorated cookies.

Recipe by: Sacramento Bee 7/2/97 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #662 by Crane Walden <cranew@...> on Jul 9, 1997

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