Recipe - Grandma Burdicks Sour Cream Cookies

1 One half cup Sugar
2 lg Eggs
One half cup Shortening
1 cup Sour cream
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
3 cup Allpurpose flour
1 tablespoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt

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 oldfashioned, cakestyle cookie that can be baked in drops
or rolled and shaped for decorated cookies.

Recipe by: Sacramento Bee 7/2/97 Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #662 by
Crane Walden cranew@foothill.net on Jul 9, 1997