FAMILY REUNION PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Family Reunion Peanut Butter Cookies image

Provided by Rose Mary Mogan

Categories Cookies

Time 40m

Number Of Ingredients 10

4 c buttered flavored crisco
4 c chunky peanut butter
3 c sugar
3 c brown sugar, packed
8 large eggs, room temperature
2 Tbsp vanilla extract (i prefer madagascar)
4 tsp baking soda
4 tsp salt
1/4 c milk ( i use evaporated)
9 c all purpose flour

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a very large mixing bowl, cream the shortening, peanut Butter, & both sugars together until light & fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Mix vanilla & milk together and pour into creamed mixture.
2. In another bowl add the flour soda, & salt & mix together. Then gradually add the flour to the creamed mixture until all has been incoperated together. Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls, at least 2 inches apart, onto an ungreased baking sheet.
3. Flatten with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes for firmer cookie. If you prefer as I do a more chewier soft batch cookie, then bake for 8 minutes. Let rest a couple of minutes & Then remove to wire rack to cool completely. Makes about 18 dozen cookies. Can cut recipe in half if you like.
4. NOTE MY PERSONAL PREFERENCE: I prefer to rub hands with a small amout of butter or margarine & roll dough into balls, dip fork into granulated sugar, and make a crisscross pattern in cookies and bake. Cookies do expand as they bake.Recipe is one of many in my cookbook of 795 recipes.