Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/2 cup all-vegetable shortening
• 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light-brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Combine peanut butter, shortening, light brown sugar, milk, and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Add egg. Beat just until blended. Combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet. Flatten slightly in crisscross pattern with fork.

Bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 8 minutes, or until set and just beginning to brown. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove cookies to cooling rack. Recipe yeilds about 3 dozen cookies.

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