Day 23 - Peanut Butter Cookies

Posted by Unknown on February 18, 2011 in 3 Rolling Pins Brown Sugar cookies Dessert Fannie Farmer Cookbook Peanut Butter | Comments : 0

     I realized something today.  The past few days I have been glued to the internet perusing different food blogs and it is amazing the amount of time I can spend looking at one site which takes me to another site and leads me to another, and so on.  I'm sure you have all at one point experienced this.  It's like when I first started Facebook; looking at her friends led me to her friends, oh there's someone I know, and then there are her friends.  Hours and hours of internet time.  What I realized a few minutes ago, as I was looking at this one beautiful blog, was that...I am a victim of blog envy.  Oh my gosh, the pictures, the writing, the recipes. (sigh)  Now I want to stay glued to my computer 24/7, but the all-important baking won't be done and certainly my house would never be clean and we all know how much of a struggle that's been.  I know, it's only been three weeks, but I want to shoot for the moon, take this nationally, internationally even!   I know, it already is national and international because it's on the web and all this from a family shared computer and my husband's laptop.  I'm just letting you all know that I'm excited about where this is going and I have a good feeling, a really good feeling.  I'm blessed to have people actually reading this stuff.  AND to top it off, you are all telling me you're enjoying it!  For that I am extremely flattered and grateful.  So, for all of you who have joined us (me, myself and I) these past three weeks, I thank you and encourage you to stay along for the ride.  As I said, I am really excited about this and have been supported in many different ways.  Who knows what will happen next?
  
     Peanut Butter Cookies today, y'all.  It is from The Fannie Farmer Cookbook Thirteenth Edition, p. 617; author, Marion Cunningham; publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, division of Random House; ISBN 0-394-56788-9.
     Peanut butter cookies have always been a favorite in this house.  My husband will eat them like there's no tomorrow with a big glass of milk.  This recipe calls for shortening, but I have another recipe using butter which I like the taste of better.  These were still quite good though.





Peanut Butter Cookies
     Will make 50-60 cookies
     The ingredients:
     1 cup shortening
     1 teaspoon vanilla
     1 cup granulated sugar
     1 cup brown sugar
     2 eggs, beaten
     1 cup peanut butter
     3 cups flour
     1/8 teaspoon salt
     2 teaspoons baking soda

     Preheat oven to 350ºF and grease some cookie sheets.  In a mixing bowl, thoroughly cream the shortening, vanilla, and sugars.

Add the eggs and beat well.

Stir in the peanut butter.  At this point, the dog came into the kitchen from the dining room.  He can smell peanut butter from a mile away and probably thought I was making his dog treats again, poor dog!

Mix together the flour, salt, and baking soda, and add to the peanut butter mixture, combining thoroughly.

Form into tiny balls with the palm of your hands and place on the cookie sheets.  Press each cookie twice with the back of a fork to make a crisscross design.

Bake about 8-10 minutes or until firm. (or bake and bake and bake until they are finally finished)

    
     They were tiny, pop-in-your-mouth size which was cool, but they took forever to bake on the larger cookie sheet.  I am not kidding, probably an extra 10 minutes making it a total bake time of 20 minutes if not longer.  I kept hitting the timer for another two minutes and was becoming extremely frustrated they were taking so long.  In the end it was all good though.  People liked them, but I prefer the buttery ones.
     The rating:  3 rolling pins!
     Happy baking! (still working on it)