Cookbook 2007: Howard Brown

Blue Ribbon Peanut Butter Cookies

Cream together:

  • 1 cup shortening
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar

Then add:

  • 2 beaten eggs; stir well

Then mix:

  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 2 tablespoons hot water

Preparation:

Mix together and add this together with above mixture
Sift flour first, then measure back in sifter:
- 2 ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons baking soda

Add this mixture to the above mixture (dough will be tough). Make a small ball of dough and dip fork in flour and make a crisscross. Bake for 8 minutes at 350 degrees.