Sour Cream Drop Cookies

Ingredients

 * Cream
 * ¼ cup butter or margarine. Add gradually
 * ½ cup sugar and
 * 1 egg, well beaten. Dissolve
 * ¼ teaspoon soda in
 * ¼ cup rich sour cram. Add to first mixture alternately with
 * 1¼ cups pastry flour sifted with
 * ¼ teaspoon salt and
 * 2 teaspoons baking powder. Add
 * ½ teaspoon vanilla
 * ¼ cup raisins cut in pieces

Directions

 * 1) To prepare this Sour Cream Drop Cookies Recipe, first 1/4 cup nut meats cut in pieces.
 * 2) Drop by spoonfuls on greased tin sheet, and bake in a moderate oven.
 * 3) Double the amount of flour may be used, nuts and raising omitted, and mixture chilled and rolled out and cut in any desired shape, before baking.