Peanut Butter Cookies

July 7, 2010

Peanut Butter Cookies are the perfect ‘picnic’ food

Peanut Butter Cookie

1 C. sugar
1 C. brown sugar
1 C. Peanut Butter
3 tsp warm water
1 ½ tsp baking soda
1 C. margarine
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 C. flour
1 tsp salt

Using an electric mixer, cream sugar, brown sugar, margarine, eggs, vanilla and peanut butter until fluffy.

In a small bowl mix the warm water and the soda until the soda is dissolved. Continue to use the electric mixer to blend the soda/water in the batter.

Using a wooden spoon add the flour and salt into the creamed mixture. The batter will be stiff. Chill the dough for about 2 hours.

Form the dough into little balls a little larger than a walnut; set onto greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Dip a fork into sugar; press each cookie down with the fork once in each direction, forming the traditional peanut butter cookie top.

Bake at 350F for 10 minutes. Take care to not over cook.

Biscuits

June 2, 2010

Biscuits

2 cups of all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 cup shortening
¾ cup milk (whole, low-fat, or skim)

1 Preheat oven to 450 F
2 Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Cut in the shortening until all are coarse crumbs. Mixture should be like a meal
3 Add almost all the milk all at once and mix very gently until flour is moistened. Use enoughto make a soft, puffy dough easy to roll out. Too much milk makes the dough sticky. Not enough makes biscuits dry
4 Turn out dough out on a lightly-floured board (trying not to handle too much) Roll out to an even ½ inch thickness. Using a 2 inch cutter or a glass.
5 Place biscuits close together for soft sides, an inch apart for crusty sides.
6 Bake until golden brown or inside temperature is 195 F

Whole wheat Biscuits
Substitute ½ cup whole wheat for ½ cup of the white flour.

Cinnamon Sugar Biscuits
1 cup cinnamon sugar (1 tablespoon cinnamon mixed in 1 cup of sugar)
½ cup of butter

In 1967, when Dysart’s opened and Betty Feeney was the pastry cook she would make cinnamon sugar biscuits for lunch everyday. Follow the above recipe except after the biscuits are cut out dip them in the butter and then roll in the cinnamon sugar.