Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies


1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup Crisco stick (1/2 cup)
3 Tbsp. milk
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 cup flour
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. baking soda

Heat oven to 375. Combine both sugars, peanut butter, shortening, milk, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Add egg. Beat until blended.
Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended.
Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. Flatten slightly in crisscross pattern with tines of fork.
Bake for 7-8 minutes, or until set and just beginning to brown.
*makes about 3 dozen cookies.
This recipe is from: Favorite Brand Name Best-loved Recipes of All Time.
My mom used to make these cookies all the time when I was growing up, I knew they were peanut butter cookies, but I always remembered them as, "the cookie's with the fork marks in them".

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