This section is from the book "The Arizona Cook Book", by Williams Public Library Association. Also available from Amazon: Arizona Cook Book.
One tablespoon butter, one-half teaspoon baking powder, two tablespoons sugar, one-half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons milk, one-half cup finely chopped peanuts, one egg well beaten, one-half cup flour, cream the butter, add sugar milk and eggs. Sift together thoroughly the flour, baking powder and salt. and add to the mixture, then add peanuts. Drop by tea-spoonfuls on an unbuttered tin one-half inch apart; place one half peanut on each and bake in slow oven. - Mrs. Finney. Williams, Ariz.
One tablespoon butter, four tablespoons sugar, one egg, cream together, mix two-third cap flour with one-half teaspoon baking powder, salt, add one pint chopped peanuts, (saving out a few to sprinkle on top). Stir all together with four tablespoons milk. Drop on buttered tins and bake quickly. Makes twenty-five cookies. - Mrs. T. A. Barney, New Haven, Conn.
 
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