Maple Cookies

Description
Sufficient for forty cookies.

Ingredients

 * 1 egg
 * 1 cupful sugar
 * 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
 * 1 cupful sour cream
 * 1 teaspoonful baking soda
 * 3 tablespoonfuls hot water
 * ½ teaspoonful salt
 * flour
 * maple sugar

Directions

 * 1) First cream Crisco and sugar together.
 * 2) Add egg well beaten, mix well.
 * 3) Add cream, salt, soda dissolved in water, and sufficient flour to make of right consistency to drop from spoon.
 * 4) Grate some maple sugar on each cookie and bake in moderate oven eight minutes.