My Mother's Nearly Famous Peanut Butter Cookies
By
Scott Anderson
@Chef_Scott
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Family events were not the same without the smell of fresh baked PB cookies and a plateful of these delicious goodies on end tables scattered throughout the house.
Ingredients
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3/4 cnatural peanut butter
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1/2 cvegetable shortening
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1 1/4 cbrown sugar, firmly packed
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3 Tbspmilk
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1 Tbspnatural vanilla
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1 largeegg
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1 3/4 cap flour
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3/4 tspsalt
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3/4 tspbaking soda
How to Make My Mother's Nearly Famous Peanut Butter Cookies
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Combine PB, egg, shortening, brown sugar, milk & vanilla in a mixing bowl. Beat @ medium speed until well blended.
- Combine flour, salt & baking soda; gradually add to the creamed mixture at low speed.
- Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto a coated cookie baking sheet.
- Flatten slightly in cross-cross pattern with the tines of a fork dipped into sugar.
- Bake for 7-8 minutes or until set and lightly browned.
