Peanut Blossoms

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Shortening
3/4 cup Peanut butter
1/3 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Packed brown sugar
1 Egg
2 tablespoons Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 1/2 cups Unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
Granulated sugar
9 ounces Package Hershey's Kisses -- about 48

Instructions:

Cream shortening and peanut butter; add sugar and brown sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla; beat well.
Combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture, blending thoroughly. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll in granulated sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet; bake at 375 degrees F. for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven; immediately place unwrapped Kiss on top of each cookie, pressing down so that cookie cracks around the edge. Remove from cookie sheet; cool. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
FROM: Favorite Brand Name Recipe Cookbook by the editors of Consumer Guide, copyright 1981. Typed by Trish McKenna 11/18/95.