old fashioned peanut butter cookies

My grandmother’s peanut butter cookie recipe lives on a stained, dog-eared index card in a plastic recipe box—the same one she’s kept since 1978. The handwriting is hers: crisp, practical, unadorned. Butter. Peanut butter. Sugar. Brown sugar. Egg. Vanilla. Flour. Baking soda. Salt. Fourteen words of ingredients, and a set of instructions so spare they … Read more