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Peanut Butter Cookies

Source
Recipe Keeper (handwritten, p. 164)
Serves
3 dozen
Cook
375°F, 7-8 min

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup (1/2 stick) butter-flavored shortening
  • 1 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 3 Tbsp milk
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 3/4 tsp baking soda

Steps

  1. Combine the peanut butter, shortening, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat at medium speed.
  2. Add the egg. Beat just until blended.
  3. Combine the flour, salt, and baking soda. Add to the creamed mixture at low speed.
  4. Drop by heaping teaspoon 2 inches apart onto an ungreased sheet.
  5. Flatten slightly in a crisscross pattern with the tines of a fork.
  6. Cool 2 min. Remove to foil and cool completely.

Notes

  • The brown sugar quantity is written a little ambiguously on the card — recorded here as 1 cup, worth a glance at the physical card to confirm.
The original: Peanut Butter Cookies
The original

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