"Jen" > wrote in
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>> Jen - I think you just want any basic biscuit/cookie recipe that
>> makes a thin cookie. I think there've been many discussions here in
>> the past over what aspects of the dough will make a cookie that
>> spreads more.I've eaten cookies at the Subway in Penrith and they
>> weren't anything special. I'm not sure if they're all standard - if
>> they all use the same mix, or same pre-prepared dough.
>>
>> Rhonda Anderson
>> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia
>>
>
>
> I think you're quite right, I think it is quite a basic one, but I
> really love it, that's why I thought it should be easy to make at
> home. So could we please start another discussion for a basic, thin
> cookie. I'm sorry if it had already been discussed.
>

Don't be sorry - I didn't mean to imply you shouldn't ask the question.
Just that I know there have been discussions about this aspect of cookies
previously - perhaps you could do a search on Google of r.f.c posts.

I don't have a plain or choc chip recipe like this that I make often, so
can't help there. If you like peanuts, though, I do make this recipe a
lot, and they make thin, chewy/crispy, very moreish biccies (cookies) -
much better than Subway cookies <g>.

This recipe is actually from a kid's cookbook that I got in high school -
I've had it for about 26-27 years now. Kitchen Wizard - the recipes are
all in themed chapters, and this one's from A Huckleberry Finn Raft
Picnic <g>. Unfortunately the book is out of print, I think it would be a
great book for encouraging kids to cook. I've posted this here before, I
think. They are really good, and I have to give them away or I'd eat them
all.

Playin' Hookey Cookies

from Kitchen Wizard, Deborah Jarvis

125g soft butter
125g crunchy peanut butter
125g granulated sugar
125g brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
150g self raising flour
50g crushed or chopped peanuts (optional - but I always add)


Cream butter and peanut butter till light and fluffy
Add sugars gradually.
Beat in egg and vanilla
Mix in sifted flour and crushed nuts if using.

Roll dough into small balls about the size of walnuts. Place on baking
tray about 5cm apart. Flatten with floured fork. Bake just above the
centre of 180C (350F) oven for 10 - 12 minutes. Let cookies sit on tray
for a couple of minutes (they're very soft when straight out of oven)
then remove with palette knife and cool on rack.


Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia