Norwegian Sour Cream Cookies

By Nicole

This is my Great Grandma Melby's recipe for sour cream cookies! Great Grandma Melby was from Norway. She and Great Grandpa Melby came to the US when my grandfather was a very young boy.

Necessity is the mother of invention they say. And this seems to hold true for many recipes as well. To my understanding, in earlier times, people (whether from this country or not) tried to use every ounce of everything to avoid waste and to be thrifty. Bread pudding was created as a way to use stale bread.

So these cookies are made with SOUR cream. Not commercial sour cream in a tub. It is heavy cream or whipping cream that has gone bad. It is generally sour and putrid smelling. It may sound really disgusting actually! I often don't tell people what is in them until they take a taste.

These cookies are so good though that I save my bad cream for months just to make them. I don't use it if it has become at all solid or yellow or has any growth of any kind. Doesn't this all sound just SO yummy and appetizing? Well they ARE good.

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup butter, softened
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/3 cup sour cream (not commercial sour cream, but cream or heavy cream that has gone sour or bad)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 2/3 cups sifted flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Cinnamon Sugar: Combine a few tablespoons of sugar and about 1-2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Details

Servings 24
Adapted from artandaioli.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

Mix together your wet ingredients (butter, sugar, egg, sour cream and vanilla) until smooth. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Drop rounded spoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.

Dip the bottom of a small glass into your bowl of cookie dough or smear a little dough on the glass. Dip the glass into cinnamon sugar.

With the glass coated in sugar, lightly tap down each ball of dough on the sheet leaving a dusting of cinnamon sugar on the cookie. Continue with remaining dough. I sometimes use a spoon and sprinkle just a little more cinnamon sugar on each one as well.

Bake for 10 minutes in a 400 degree fahrenheit oven.