Recipe - Homemade Slice And Bake Peanut Butter Cookies

2 cup Vegetable shortening
2 cup Granulated sugar
2 cup Packed brown sugar
2 cup Peanut butter creamy or
Chunky
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
4 Eggs
5 cup Unbleached flour
4 teaspoon Baking soda

Cut four 14" x 12" pieces of waxed paper or plastic wrap. Set aside.

In a large bowl, cream butter or margarine with the granulated and brown
sugars and the peanut butter. Beat in vanilla extract and eggs until light
and fluffy. In a large bowl, combine flour and baking soda. Stir flour
mixture into egg and butter mixtu

Divide the dough into 4 pieces. Shape each piece into an 8" 10" roll.
Wrap rolls in waxed paper. Place the rolls in a rectangular freezer
container with a tight fitting lid, or into a large freezer ziplock bag,
or wrap well in a piece of heavy duty

To prepare cookies: Slightly thaw one roll of peanut butter cookie dough.
Preheat oven to 350ø. Cut the dough into 1" thick slices; cut each slice
into quarters and roll each quarter into a ball. Arrange balls on
ungreased cookie sheets, placing abou

Makes 4 rolls of cookie dough, or enough for about 12 dozen cookies.

Posted to EATL Digest 19 Jun 96

Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:41:37 0600

From: Ilene Warfield ilenewar@STARNETINC.COM

Recipe By : _MakeAMix_ by Eliason, Harward & Westover