Peanut Butter Cookies

Just a short entry today. I thought I would take a moment to praise the many and varied virtues of the humble peanut butter cookie. These wonderful treats, best served warm with a cool glass of milk (Semi-skimmed if you are concerned about fat of course) are easy to bake miracles of comfort.

There are of course a small number of compatibility issues. Peanut Butter cookies don’t work well with calorie controlled diets, they’re anathema for people with peanut allergies and they make your fingertips oily. All of these ‘cons’ as it were are obviated by they’re warmth, flavour and finger lickin’ goodness.

A few of our more pedestrian friends may be concerned that combining peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, white sugar, a drop of vanilla, a couple of eggs and a pinch of baking powder is hardly a way to foster health and good teeth but who’s listening to them eh?

Peanut butter cookies are also incompatible with keyboards, not to mention crumb-free environments. So if you work for Intel forget it. No one’s going let you eat these treats in the lab.

Despite their multitudinous failings, being cooked in a shade under eleven minutes not among them, I still feel that these distinctive nibbles with their twice-fork-pressed tops are a classic example of American cooking and to quote the free and the brave. God bless America for peanut butter cookies.

Yes, yes. I know, that’s paraphrasing.

Word of the day: Balalaika
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1 – a Russian musical instrument having a triangular body and a neck like that of a guitar