Grandma’s peanut butter molasses cookies recipe (1947)
Easiest-made cookies ever put in your oven! So simple, you’ll be glad to make them whenever the children ask! Or, if dessert’s on the skimpy side — you can whip up a bunch in no time flat. And how wonderful these cookies taste!
Peanut butter molasses cookies
Here's a classic recipe from the late 1940s for Grandma's peanut butter molasses cookies, which are sweetened with sugar and dark molasses, and topped with peanut halves.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon soda
- 2 tablespoons milk
- Peanuts
Instructions
- Cream shortening and peanut butter together.
- Add sugar and then molasses and vanilla, mixing well.
- Add egg.
- Mix and sift dry ingredients together.
- Add to molasses mixture.
- Add milk. Mix well.
- Drop on greased cookie sheet.
- Flatten with bottom of a glass covered with a damp cloth.
- Decorate with peanut halves.
- Bake in a moderately hot oven (375 F) about 10 minutes.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 50 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 62Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 5mgSodium: 46mgCarbohydrates: 7gFiber: 0gSugar: 5gProtein: 1g
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