½ cup peanut butter
½ cup sugar
½ cup GRANDMA’S MOLASSES
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk
Heat oven to 375° F. (moderate). Sift together first four ingredients. Cream shortening, peanut butter, and sugar. Add molasses and vanilla. Beat in egg. Add milk. Stir in flour mixture. Drop onto greased cooky sheets. Flatten cookies ⅛ inch thick by stamping with bottom of glass covered with damp cloth. Bake 10 minutes or until cookies have lightly browned. Cool. Store in tightly closed tin box.
YIELD: 3½ dozen cookies.
MOLASSES COCONUT CHEWS
2 cups sifted cake flour