Monday, February 3, 2014

Peanut Butter Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies

1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 shortening (crisco)
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 t. baking soda
1/2 t. baking powder
1/4 t. salt

Oven at 375. Cream together sugars and fats till fluffy. Add in egg and beat till incorporated. Sift together dry ingredients. Add all at once to wet ingredients and stir just until everything is moist. Shape into 1" balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with a fork in a criss-cross pattern. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are just lightly brown and middle of cookie is not longer wet looking. Remove from the oven and let cool slightly before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. About 3 doz. cookies.

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