1918 Peanut Cookies Recipe || Glen & Friends Cooking

welcome friends welcome back to another
Sunday morning and the old cookbook showtoday we’re going to do something out of
the metropolitan cookbook and this waspublished in 1918 by the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company for theirpolicyholders and there’s quite a bit of
information in the front of thispamphlet all about what you should eat
during a day in order to be healthy andwhat the requirements are and they’re
quite interesting because in 1918 theexpectation is quite different than it
is today in 2019 so the recipe we’regoing to do is for a peanut cookie and a
quite an interesting one because it’snot a peanut butter cookie I love peanut
butter cookies but this one just usespeanuts and I’m really looking forward
to see how this turns out so we’re gonnastart out by creaming some butter and
the recipe just asks for fat I’ve put inbutter cuz that’s what I want to use in
these cookies once the butter issoftened I put in the sugar and what’s
really interesting is this makes a verysmall batch of cookies I think because
that’s only two tablespoons of butteronce that’s all creamed together we put
in one egg and continue beating that inokay we’re done with the beater and now
I’m going to mix into this flour somesalt and some baking powder and we’ll
just give that a quick stir just to makesure it’s all mixed together now the
book says that you’re supposed to siftthese together and I guess I should and
in 1918 it would have been veryimportant to sift it together because
flour would have been different therecould have been bugs that could have
been clumped there were a whole pile ofother reasons why you would have sifted
in 2019 that’s not such a big deal andI’m not going to I’m not gonna worry
about it now I just dump this inapparently and mix it togethersomehow this says it’s gonna make 24
cookies I imagine they are 24 super tinylittle cookies next to go in here is
some milk and not very much milk it saystwo tablespoons so I have a two
tablespoon measuring spoon and a lot ofpeople ask me about this yes it is two
tablespoons it’s made by all-clad if youwere looking for it out there in the
wild and go two tablespoons next in arethe peanuts and it says one teaspoon of
lemon juice so I’ve got a fresh lemonI’m just gonna squeeze some in I’m gonna
say that’s about right and then we’rejust gonna mix this together now as far
as cookie dough goes this is quite looseI’m a little bit interested I thought I
could use a scoop like I would normallywith cookies but I don’t think I can I
don’t know that it’ll come out let’sgive it a shot first let’s see will it
come out oh maybe just hmm okay we’regonna use the scoop so I ended up with
15 cookies not 24 but judging by whatthe book says at the beginning
it wouldn’t surprise me if these weremeant to be much smaller well I
definitely know they were meant to bemuch smaller so it says to put half of a
peanut on top of each cookie before youbake itthese are gonna be good
these are gonna be goodhey Glenn did you actually put a peanut
in each one or is this just that manypeanuts and they just randomly all seem
to be in the middle no I of course I putit I put a peanut in every one I made
them with care except for this one I ranout of peanut halves oh so these are
just peanut cookies so they’re notpeanut butter cookies
you just put chopped up peanuts in okayand the dough is a little weird so I
don’t know what to expect okay it lookslike a cookie
it looks like it’s crispy like it’s gotlots of butter in it no there’s two
tablespoons of butter huh like it’sthere’s no that’s crispier than I would
have expected right like that looks wellthey spread quite a bit I was afraid
they were gonna spread but they spreadand then they puffed up it’s more like a
little cake mm-hmm absolute taste likesoft peanut brittle mm-hmm pretty nutty
for those of you who can’t chew peanutbrittle this could be your solution if
you’ve ever had a Madeleine mmm it hasthat texture I’m up for the crunchy
peanut therefore the crunchy well thepeanuts chopped up right so I put them
on I like chopped them up but you couldprobably chop them finer than I did but
I thought oh I’d like tucking it bits init
mm-hmm I actually really like thesecookies okay so you’re expecting a
peanut butter cookie no it’s not supersweet no they’re they’re really they’re
literally is nothing in this cookie Iread through that recipe and I thought
two tablespoons of butter twotablespoons of but and it only makes one
pan of cookies which is really greateven though it says makes 24 there’s no
way they never match do they no never noI think it’s interesting dude it doesn’t
say it doesn’t say two tablespoons ofmilk it actually says two tablespoons of
fat butter this is fat you just make itwith all sorts of things so would be
whatever fat you you want to use so youyou could use lard or shortening butter
you could use you wanted to use coconutoil you could use coconut oil yeah so
you go the exception the egg I was gonnasay could be vegan but no no you’ve got
a you’ve got an egg in it yeah what doyou do next substitute you could use an
egg suckeryeah but it’s I really like it I’m in I
feel you know you could add other thingsthat complement peanut flavours I bet a
little cardamom in where there would bevery nicely yep a couple of chocolate
chips in this would be chocolate chips Ithink you could all probably also add a
couple bit of dried fruit like a cherryor yes yes
as it goes you’re gonna say it aren’tyou can change it up make it your own so
I’m pretty pleased with these if you’relooking for that crispy crunchy cookie
this isn’t it this is more like aMadeleine it’s more like a little tiny
cake but they’re fantastic thanks forstopping by
see you again soonyou