Peanut Butter Cookies-by Gertrude Bliss Rooks

So excited to find this recipe in my Mom's recipe box. I can remember a few occasions where my Dad made peanut butter cookies, I was enlisted to help during these times.  At one point I asked, 'why always peanut butter' , he said it was one of his few memories of his mother as, she died when he was very young. Having never met my Grandma Rooks, I consider this a rare find and a blessing.

Ingredients

1 cup butter
1 cup peanut butter
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 well beaten eggs
2 tsp vanila

Cream together, butter and sugars.  Add eggs, beat until fluffy. Add vanilla and peanut butter, mix well. In a separte bowl combine- Flour, soda, and salt.  Add to creamed mixture and beat just until combined.  Chill dough overnight.  Roll into balls the size of walnuts, mash eash ball with a fork in a criss-cross patern.  Place on cookie sheet 1 1/2 inches apart, bake at 300 degrees for 12-15 minutes, until just lightly browned.*

*For months now I have been on a quest to bake the perfect Peanut Butter cookie, upon finding this recipe I decided to give them a try.  This is it!! Who knew it was right in my kitchen the whole time.... I did have to mess with the baking times but, I found that 12 minutes was perfect if, I let them set on the sheet for a couple of minutes before, moving to the wire rack.  My biggest issue with this is keeping Nikki from burning her fingers on the hot pan because, she wouldn't wait....

**I did alter the recipe ever so slightly, for the 1 cup of peanut butter I used 1/4 cup crunchy, 3/4 creamy (Steve likes the occasional peanut in his cookie)