One year she apparently decided to hide some cookies, too.  And she totally forgot about them.  In March, my sisters and I were digging in the “rag bin.”  It was actually a tilt out wooden flour storage box in the pantry. We never used the bin for flour, so it was a perfect place to store rags.  At the bottom of the bin, we found a small round metal tin filled with soft sour cream cherry chip cookies.  It was like forgotten treasure, although truthfully, I recall they were a little stale.  But we were so excited to find and eat them that I still remember the experience and the taste more than 50 years later.

I don’t have a recipe to share.  Mom may have started with the Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Drop recipe that appears on page 182 of the “Big Red” Betty Crocker Cookbook  we used throughout our childhood.  I do not recall that mom, my sisters, or I every again made soft sour cream cookies with cherry mini chips. Maybe this year?