welcome friends welcome back to another Sunday morning and the old cookbook show
today we're going to do something out of the metropolitan cookbook and this was
published in 1918 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for their
policyholders and there's quite a bit of information in the front of this
pamphlet all about what you should eat during a day in order to be healthy and
what the requirements are and they're quite interesting because in 1918 the
expectation is quite different than it is today in 2019 so the recipe we're
going to do is for a peanut cookie and a quite an interesting one because it's
not a peanut butter cookie I love peanut butter cookies but this one just uses
peanuts and I'm really looking forward to see how this turns out so we're gonna
start out by creaming some butter and the recipe just asks for fat I've put in
butter cuz that's what I want to use in these cookies once the butter is
softened I put in the sugar and what's really interesting is this makes a very
small batch of cookies I think because that's only two tablespoons of butter
once that's all creamed together we put in one egg and continue beating that in
okay we're done with the beater and now I'm going to mix into this flour some
salt and some baking powder and we'll just give that a quick stir just to make
sure it's all mixed together now the book says that you're supposed to sift
these together and I guess I should and in 1918 it would have been very
important to sift it together because flour would have been different there
could have been bugs that could have been clumped there were a whole pile of
other reasons why you would have sifted in 2019 that's not such a big deal and
I'm not going to I'm not gonna worry about it now I just dump this in
apparently and mix it together
somehow this says it's gonna make 24 cookies I imagine they are 24 super tiny
little cookies next to go in here is some milk and not very much milk it says
two tablespoons so I have a two tablespoon measuring spoon and a lot of
people ask me about this yes it is two tablespoons it's made by all-clad if you
were looking for it out there in the wild and go two tablespoons next in are
the peanuts and it says one teaspoon of lemon juice so I've got a fresh lemon
I'm just gonna squeeze some in I'm gonna say that's about right and then we're
just gonna mix this together now as far as cookie dough goes this is quite loose
I'm a little bit interested I thought I could use a scoop like I would normally
with cookies but I don't think I can I don't know that it'll come out let's
give it a shot first let's see will it come out oh maybe just hmm okay we're
gonna use the scoop so I ended up with 15 cookies not 24 but judging by what
the book says at the beginning it wouldn't surprise me if these were
meant to be much smaller well I definitely know they were meant to be
much smaller so it says to put half of a peanut on top of each cookie before you
bake it
these are gonna be good these are gonna be good
hey Glenn did you actually put a peanut in each one or is this just that many
peanuts and they just randomly all seem to be in the middle no I of course I put
it I put a peanut in every one I made them with care except for this one I ran
out of peanut halves oh so these are just peanut cookies so they're not
peanut butter cookies you just put chopped up peanuts in okay
and the dough is a little weird so I don't know what to expect okay it looks
like a cookie it looks like it's crispy like it's got
lots of butter in it no there's two tablespoons of butter huh like it's
there's no that's crispier than I would have expected right like that looks well
they spread quite a bit I was afraid they were gonna spread but they spread
and then they puffed up it's more like a little cake mm-hmm absolute taste like
soft peanut brittle mm-hmm pretty nutty for those of you who can't chew peanut
brittle this could be your solution if you've ever had a Madeleine mmm it has
that texture I'm up for the crunchy peanut therefore the crunchy well the
peanuts chopped up right so I put them on I like chopped them up but you could
probably chop them finer than I did but I thought oh I'd like tucking it bits in
it mm-hmm I actually really like these
cookies okay so you're expecting a peanut butter cookie no it's not super
sweet no they're they're really they're literally is nothing in this cookie I
read through that recipe and I thought two tablespoons of butter two
tablespoons of but and it only makes one pan of cookies which is really great
even though it says makes 24 there's no way they never match do they no never no
I think it's interesting dude it doesn't say it doesn't say two tablespoons of
milk it actually says two tablespoons of fat butter this is fat you just make it
with all sorts of things so would be whatever fat you you want to use so you
you could use lard or shortening butter you could use you wanted to use coconut
oil you could use coconut oil yeah so you go the exception the egg I was gonna
say could be vegan but no no you've got a you've got an egg in it yeah what do
you do next substitute you could use an egg sucker
yeah but it's I really like it I'm in I feel you know you could add other things
that complement peanut flavours I bet a little cardamom in where there would be
very nicely yep a couple of chocolate chips in this would be chocolate chips I
think you could all probably also add a couple bit of dried fruit like a cherry
or yes yes as it goes you're gonna say it aren't
you can change it up make it your own so I'm pretty pleased with these if you're
looking for that crispy crunchy cookie this isn't it this is more like a
Madeleine it's more like a little tiny cake but they're fantastic thanks for
stopping by see you again soon
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