Peanut Cookies II

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons butter
• ¼ cup Sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup flour
• 2 teaspoons milk
• ½ cup finely chopped peanuts
• ½ teaspoon lemon juice

Directions

1. First, cream the butter, add Sugar, and egg well beaten.
2. Mix and sift baking powder, salt, and flour
3. Add to first mixture
4. Then add milk, peanuts, and lemon juice.
5. Drop from a teaspoon on a buttered sheet one inch apart, and place one-half Peanut on top of each.
6. Bake twelve to fifteen minutes in a slow oven.

This recipe will make twenty-four cookies. One pint peanuts when shelled should yield one-half cup.