#227 - Sour Cream Cookies

(by Harriet Weaver - friend)

5 cups sifted flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla

In a mixer, combine butter, sugar. Add eggs and beat. Add sour cream and beat. Add baking soda, salt, nutmeg and vanilla--beat well. Add flour one cup at a time and mix--if it gets too stiff for mixer, continue adding flour and stirring by hand. Drop teaspoonsful on a greased cookie sheet and sprinkle a little white sugar over the top of each cookie before baking. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned.