Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup fat
  
• 1 cup peanut butter
  
• 1 cup brown sugar
  
• 1 cup granulated sugar
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
  
• 2 1/2 cups flour
  
• 3 tablespoons warm water
  

Instructions:

• Cream the fat and peanut butter until soft
  
• Add the sugar and mix until very creamy
  
• Lightly mix the rest of the ingredients
  
• Drop portions of the soft dough from the tip of spoon onto greased baking sheets
  
• Flatten each cooky (sic) with the broad side of a knife
  
• Bake 10 minutes in a moderate oven
  
• Cool and store in a tightly covered jar
  

Notes:

• This was among my mom's hand written recipies.
  
• If she ever made them I don't remember it.
  
• My guess is the "fat" listed in the ingredients would have been Crisco brand, or similar (hydrogenated vegetable oil)
  
• Helen Macdonald of sunny but cool Bruce Mines, Ontario Canada and sunny Florida found this page uncompleted and asked for the recipe via email on 13 September 2001--thanks for asking Helen!
  
• On 26 Oct 2001 I got this note from her: It is terrific! I used olive oil rather than shortening. The cookies turned out just fine . . . It was so easy to do and quickly turned out . . . The recipe makes 48 good sized cookies . . . Just for the record, I am a great grandmother who made peanut butter cookies for my four boys many, many times. I don't know what I did with my recipe but this one is a better one.