Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup butter or shortening
• 1 cup sifted flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 tap. rsalt
• 1 tsp. soda

Method

1. 1

   Cream peanut butter and shortening until soft.

2. 2

   Add sugars gradually, continuing to cream until fluffy.

3. 3

   Add egg; beat well.

4. 4

   Sift flour, salt and soda together; add in 2 additions; beat well after each addition.

5. 5

   Drop from teaspoon, two inches apart on to ungreased cookie sheet.

6. 6

   Press down each cookie with a fork; press second time so that ridges are at right angles.

7. 7

   Bake 8 to 10 minutes in 350 degrees.

8. 8

   Makes about 4 dozen cookies.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes from our hearth (1960) by N.C.) Advent Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES 1/2 cup peanut butter 1 egg 1/4 cup butter or shortening 1 cup sifted flour 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed 1/2 tap. rsalt 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 tsp. soda

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