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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Mom's Peanut Butter Cookies

My Mom made Peanut Butter Cookies for us kids often during my childhood, just like many Moms of her generation for an after school snack.  They were a favorite of Dad's too.  When my sisters and I were old enough to bake, we started making Mom's Peanut Butter Cookies.  Today is a perfect warm cookies and milk kinda rainy and snow day here.  Thanks for a great recipe Mom, I'll have one or two cookies in memory of those baking days of long ago.

Mom's Peanut Butter Cookies
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 Tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.  Combine first 8 ingredients in a large bowl, blend well.  Stir in remaining dry ingredients, blend well.  Roll into 1 " balls and place 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet.  Flatten with a crisscross pattern with a fork dipped into sugar.  bake for 10-12 minutes until golden brown.  Immediately remove from cookie sheet.

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