Sour Cream Drop Cookies

Ingredients

 * ¼ cup butter or margarine
 * ½ cup sugar
 * 1 egg, well beaten
 * ¼ teaspoon soda
 * ¼ cup rich sour cream
 * 1¼ cups pastry flour
 * ¼ teaspoon salt
 * 2 teaspoons baking powder. add
 * ½ teaspoon vanilla
 * ¼ cup raisins cut in pieces
 * ¼ cup nut meats cut in pieces

Directions

 * 1) Cream the butter or margarine.
 * 2) Gradually add sugar and beaten egg.
 * 3) Dissolve baking soda in sour cream.
 * 4) Add to first mixture alternately with pastry flour sifted with salt and baking powder.
 * 5) Add the vanilla and raisins.
 * 6) Add cup nut meats.
 * 7) Drop by spoonfuls on greased tin sheet, and bake in a moderate oven.
 * 8) 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.