Busters Recipes

Bacon and Peanut Butter Cookies

3 cups sifted flour
2 teaspoons soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs, well beaten
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup chopped cooked bacon (4 ounces or 6 slices)

Sift together flour, soda and salt. Cream shortening with sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs and mix thoroughly. Stir in peanut butter. Add dry ingredients gradually, blending well. Stir in chopped cooked bacon.
Shape into small balls about 3/4-inch in diameter. Place on a greased cookie sheet and press flat with tines of a fork or bottom of a glass.

Bake about 12 minutes at 400 degrees.

Makes 5 dozen cookies.