~ Soft sugar cookies (southern cream cookies) Recipe ~

1 c  Shortening
      2 c  Sugar
      3 lg Eggs; well beaten
      1 ts vanilla
      1 c  Sour cream
      5 c  flour; sifted
      3 ts baking powder
      1 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Baking soda
  1 1/2 c  Walnuts; * chopped
      3 tb Sugar; blended with
      1 ts Cinnamon
 
     1. Heat oven to 350 deg. Grease cookie sheets.
     2. Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla and sour cream; mix
  well.
     3. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and soda; add to creamed
  mixture. Mix well.
     4. Add chopped nuts, if desired.
     5. Drop from teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet, 1 inch apart.
     6. Grease bottom of small glass; dip into sugar-cinnamon mixture, and
  press cookie flat.
     7. Bake at 350 deg. for 15 min. Makes 6 dozen cookies.
 
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