Recipe 46

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Recipe name and category: Peanut Butter Cookies-Dessert

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Recipe ingredients and directions:

½ cup butter or margarine

½ cup peanut butter

½ cup white sugar

½ cup brown sugar

1 egg

½ tsp vanilla

½ tsp salt

½ tsp baking soda

1 cup flour (preferably pastry flour)

Cream together butter and peanut butter. Beat in white and brown sugars. Stir in rest of ingredients. Arrange by teaspoonfuls on cookie sheets and press slightly with fork.

Add lots of chocolate chips at the end if desired.

Bake at 350˚ F for 10 minutes until firm.

Recipe source: Friend (old roommate)

Recipe anecdote: One of my old vet school roommates loved to bake and used to make these peanut butter cookies for us all the time while we studied (or procrastinated, whatever the mood!)