1-2-3
Peanut Butter Cookies
Try these
activities with your kids before, during and after baking 1-2-3
Peanut Butter Cookies.
Before you
begin this week’s baking project, explore with your children
the history of peanut butter. Did you know March is National
Peanut Month? Who invented peanut butter? Who was the father
of the peanut industry in America? Use your web browser to search
the internet for information about this American favorite.
Try the
following websites:
www.peanutbutterlovers.com
sponsored by the Peanut Advisory Board
www.ilovepeanutbutter.com/
gourmet peanut butter?
www.peanut-institute.org/
everything you wanted to know about peanuts
inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpeanutbutter.htm
invention of peanut butter
inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa041897.htm
who was George Washington Carver?
While you
are preparing the recipe, talk to your kids about every step.
Help them understand the process of baking better by naming
the implements and tools and telling them what each one does.
Let children assist with age-appropriate activities. Click here
to find out what your child can do to help. www.homebaking.org/familyfun/tips.html
Peanut
Butter Cookies Recipe
1 cup peanut
butter (smooth or crunchy)
1
cup granulated sugar
1
egg, slightly beaten
Directions:
Preheat
oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a cookie sheet; set aside.
In
a small bowl mix together the sugar and egg; add peanut butter
and mix until well blended.
For
each cookie, take a heaping teaspoon of dough from the bowl;
using your hands roll into a small ball. Place on cookie sheet,
making sure there are at least two inches between each ball.
When cookie sheet is full of cookies, take a fork and press
slightly on each cookie to flatten; make crisscross pattern
on each cookie with fork as shown on picture at left.
Place cookie
sheet in oven and bake at 350 degrees F. for about 8 minutes.
Remove from cookie sheet and place cookies on wire racks to
cool.
After the
cookies are baked, use the web to look for more peanut butter
recipes. Peanut butter has many more uses besides peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches or peanut butter cookies. Did you know
peanuts are a popular ingredient in African stews? Check out
Clabber Girl’s recipe for Ground Nut Stew. Groundnut
Stew
Look at
these other peanut butter recipes on the web:
http://www.therecipebox.com/members/box/soup/sou0212.htm
http://www.peanut-institute.org/recipes.html
http://www.jif.com/recipes.asp
http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/recipes/index.html
