Sour Cream Cookies

Ingredients

• one half cup of butter
• one cup of sugar
• one well-beaten egg
• one half cup of sour cream
• one quarter teaspoon of sifted soda
• two and a half cups of flour
• three and a half level teaspoons of baking powder
• one teaspoon of vanilla
• Sprinkle with grated cocoanut

Method

1. 1

   Cream together half a cup of butter and one cup of sugar.

2. 2

   Add one well-beaten egg and half a cup of sour cream into which has been stirred a quarter teaspoon of sifted soda.

3. 3

   Sift two and a half cups of flour with three and a half level teaspoons of baking powder and beat well into the first mixture.

4. 4

   Add one teaspoon of vanilla.

5. 5

   Drop from a teaspoon in small rounds on a buttered tin, sprinkle with grated coconut, and bake in a hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from For the comfort of the family (1914) by Josephine Story, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one half cup of butter and one cup of sugar; add one well-beaten egg and one half cup of sour cream into which has been stirred one quarter teaspoon of sifted soda. Sift two and a half cups of flour with three and a half level teaspoons of baking powder and beat weU into first mixture. Add one teaspoon of vanilla. Drop from teaspoon in small rounds on but- tered tin. Sprinkle with grated cocoanut

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