Peanut Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup flour
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ½ cup finely chopped peanuts
- ½ teaspoon lemon juice
Steps
- Cream the butter, add sugar, and egg well beaten. Mix and sift baking powder, salt, and flour; add to first mixture; then add milk, peanuts, and lemon juice. Drop from a teaspoon on an unbuttered sheet one inch apart, and place one-half peanut on top of each. Bake twelve to fifteen minutes in a slow oven. This recipe will make twenty-four cookies. One pint peanuts when shelled should yield one-half cup.
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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.