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walnuts. Add vanilla. Bake in a little more than a moderate oven until shape is set, then reduce heat to a slow oven.

Sour Cream Cookies

• 1 c. sour cream
• 1 c. sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 ½ c. flour
• 1 tsp. soda
• ¼ tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Drop from tip of tsp. into small mounds on greased baking sheets and press a nut or raisin on top of each cookie. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake in a quick oven ten to fifteen minutes.

P.-T. A's

• 3 tbsp. fat
• ½ c. sugar
• ¼ tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 egg well beaten
• 1 ½ c. flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 2 tbsp. milk

Cream fat and sugar. Add egg, milk and flour sifted with baking powder. Add flavoring. If this amount of flour is not sufficent to make a very stiff batter, add more. Drop from tip of teaspoon on greased pan and bake in a quick oven.

A piece of nut or raisin may be put on top of each before baking.

Rolled Oat Cookies

• 2 eggs
• ¾ c. fat
• 1 ½ c. flour
• 1 c. light brown sugar
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• ½ tsp. salt
• ¾ tsp. soda
• ½ c. raisins
• 2 tbsp. Karo
• ⅔ c. nuts
• 2 c. rolled oats put thru coarse food copper

Mix. Drop from spoon the size of a walnut and bake 15 minutes.