Sour Cream Cookies
- Title
- Sour Cream Cookies
- Subject
- white sugar
- shortening
- eggs
- buttermilk
- soda
- flour
- baking powder
- cream
- Description
- Sour cream cookie.
1½ white sugar.
1 cup shortening
2 eggs -
2/3 c buttermilk
1 tsp soda
3 cups flour.
1 tsp baking powder
(over)
Back:
If you use cream.
1c of cream to ½ c of
shortening.
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# Sour Cream Cookies
## Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp soda
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
## Instructions
1. Combine ingredients and mix to form a cookie dough.
2. Drop or roll and cut cookies as desired.
3. Bake until done.
**Variation (from back of card):** If you use cream, substitute 1 cup of cream for the 1/2 cup shortening (reduce shortening to 1/2 cup). - Creator
- Alice Yetka, Martha Yetka
- Source
- RCA0006 - The Yetka family collection that started the project (eBay)
- Date
- 1950s
- Rights
- Personal/Family
- Format
- Handwritten recipe card
- Identifier
- RCA0006-20260609-0349
- Coverage
- Oregon, US
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Tags
Citation
Alice Yetka, Martha Yetka, “Sour Cream Cookies,” Recipe Card Archive, accessed June 24, 2026, https://www.recipecardarchive.com/items/show/1732.