Norwegian Sour Cream Cookies

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.

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