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