This recipe is from a notebook of recipes taken down by Lillian Filbey Prunuske when she was a young girl first learning to cook at the turn of the 19th Century in rural Illinois. With the single substitution of butter for pork lard, this is Katherine Herbert Carlton's exact recipe. Aunt Kate lived from 1862-1940, mostly on a farm in Livingston County just outside Ancona, Illinois. She was the wife of Absalom Carlton and the daughter-in-law of Edward Carlton IV (the English Immigrant).

Kate's recipe for sour cream cookies produces a wonderful, mild flavored, soft yellow cookie.

10 min. preparation, 15 min. baking, makes 6 doz.

2 cups sugar

1/2 lb (2 sticks) butter

1 egg

2 cups sour cream

pinch of salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp nutmeg

3 cups flour

1. preheat oven to 400 degrees

2. mix sugar and butter then add egg, sour cream, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, and flour

3. drop batter onto pan and bake until done (usually 15 min.)

This page was updated on 4-14-98. If you have queries or comments, email rcarlton@arkansas.net