Peanut Butter Cookies

• 5 1/4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
  
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter
• 3/4 cup shortening
• 1 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 cup peanut butter

Preheat oven to 350. Mix flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, shortening, sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla. Stir in peanut butter. Add flour mixture a little a time and stir until well blended.

Drop dough by tablespoons onto cookie sheet. Using a fork dipped in flour, flatten each cookie slightly in a crisscoss pattern. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until slightly golden around the edges. Do not over bake.

These are especially delicious with white chocolate chips!