Sour Cream & Lard Sugar Cookies

Another South Dakota favorite:

Aunt Helen's Cookies

3/4 lard*
2 c. sugar
2 eggs unbeaten
1 c. sour cream
6 c. flour
2 tsp soda
2 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp vanilla

Cream sugar with lard (add salt & nutmeg to sugar first). Add whole eggs. Add flour & cr of tartar. Stir soda into a little water & add to sour cream, then add to flour mixture.

Chill dough for several hours. Cut them out & sprinkle with sugar. Bake in a hot oven.

(Use xtra flour to roll them.)

*When I make these one of these days, I'll use butter. But they won't taste the same . . . .