Easy Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

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Recipe from the first lady in 1975, Mrs. Gerald Ford and a Recipe from the Vice Presidents wife in 1975, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.

Enjoy recipes from an old cookbook made years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House during that time.

Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

Ingredients required
1 cup shortening
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons soda
2 tablespoons hot water
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups flour

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

Cream shortening and eggs and sugar. And hot water and peanut butter. Add dry ingredients and vanilla. Roll in balls and flattened with fork. Bake 10 to 15 minutes.

Double Peanut Cookie Recipe

Ingredients required
1/2 cup softened margarine
1 1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats, not instant
1 cup pancake mix
1 cup salted peanuts, chopped

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Double Peanut Cookie Recipe

Cream margarine. Add sugar, vanilla, and egg. Beat until light, beat in peanut butter, then stir in oats and pancake mix. Shape and one-inch balls. Roll in peanuts, pressing nuts in slightly. Put on ungreased cookie sheet and bake with rack set slightly above center in preheated oven. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Make four dozen.

List of Cookie Recipes

Applesauce Cookies
Brownie and Chocolate Cookie
Dates, Raisin Cookies
Fortune Cookie
Ginger Cookie
Lemonade Cookie
Molasses Cookies
Oatmeal Cookie
Peanut Butter Cookie
Pineapple Cookies
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip
Sugar Cookie
Sugarless Cookies

Baking Abbreviations
tsp. - teaspoon
Tbsp. - tablespoon
C. - cup
pt. - pint
qt. - quart
pk. - peck
bu. - bushel

oz. - ounce, ounces
lb. - pound, pounds
sq. - square
min. - minute, minutes
hr. - hour, hours
mod. - moderate, moderately
doz. - dozen

Simplified Measures
dash - less than 1/8 teaspoon
3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon
16 tablespoon = 1 cup
1 cup = 1/2 pint
2 cups = 1 pint
2 pints (4 cups) = 1 quart
4 quarts(liquid) = 1 gallon
8 quarts(solid) = 1 peck

4 pecks = 1 bushel
16 ounces = 1 pound
2 tablespoon = 1/4 cup
5 1/3 tablespoons = 1/3 cup
8 tablespoons = 1/2 cup
10 2/3 tablespoons = 2/3 cup
12 tablespoons = 3/4 cup
14 tablespoons = 7/8 cup