Dessert / Cookies: Peanut Butter Cookies

From Mary Carey

Ingredients
1 ¾ cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup butter
½ cup granulated sugar
1 egg
2 Tablespoons cold water
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ cup Peter Pan creamy peanut butter
½ cup brown sugar

Directions
Mix and sift flour, baking soda and salt. Cream butter and peanut butter; add sugars gradually and cream until fluffy. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Add sifted ingredients gradually and mix. Using about one Tablespoon dough for each and shape into balls; crease each cookie with the tines of a fork to flatten to about 3/8 inch thickness. Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired.

Bake on ungreased baking sheets in a preheated 350 degree oven about 10 minutes.

Yields 3 dozen.