People like these. Just
ask my (adult) kids, who grew up eating them. Homemade is better than any other
way to have ttem, including Girl Scout cookies. My cookies are easy to make
and worth the time. My sentiments are stated in this quote from the late Peg
Bracken: “When you hate to cook, you ask a lot of a cooky recipe. It must call
for no exotic ingredients. It must be
easy. It must not, above all, call
for any rolling out and cutting. It
must produce extremely good cookies.
And quite a lot of them.” (The I Hate to
Cook Book, 1960)
These peanut butter cookies
fit that description. They are from my 1948 cookbook that has never failed me: The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, by
Fannie Merritt Farmer, 8th edition.
Peanut Butter Cookies
½ cup butter 1 egg
½ cup peanut butter ½ teaspoon vanilla
½ cup white sugar ½ teaspoon salt
½ cup brown sugar ½ teaspoon soda
1 cup flour
Cream butters, beat in
sugar, add other ingredients and more flour, if needed, to make mixture still
enough for drop cookies. Arrange by spoonfuls on buttered cookie sheet, press
flat with floured spoon and mark with floured fork. Bake in moderate oven (350
degrees).
My comments: I suggest
mixing the flour, salt and soda together before mixing them with the other
ingredients. This recipe makes about 24 cookies, but the number will depend on
size.
