Peanut Butter Crisscross Cookies

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Title: Peanut Butter Crisscross Cookies
Categories: Cookies, Shaped
Yield: 108 cookies

1 1/2 c Shortening; soft
1 c Granulated sugar
1 1/2 c Brown sugar, firmly packed
3 Eggs
12 oz Chunk-style peanut butter
3 1/2 c Sifted all-purpose flour
2 ts Soda
3/4 ts Salt
2 c Quaker Oats, uncooked
-- (quick or old-fashioned)

Beat shortening and sugars together until creamy. Add eggs, one at a
time, beating well after each addition. Blend in peanut butter. Sift
together flour, soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture; blend well. Stir
in oats.

Shape to form 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cooky sheets. With tines
of fork, press to make crisscrosses on each. (If dough sticks to fork,
occasionally dip fork in flour.) Bake in preheated moderate oven (350 F.)
12 to 15 minutes.

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Reprinted with permission from The Quaker Oats Company
Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias

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