Betty Crocker Peanut Butter Cookies

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Mix sugars, peanut butter, shortening, butter and egg in large bowl.
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Stir in remaining ingredients.
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Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
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Heat oven to 375ºF.
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Shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls.
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Place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten in crisscross pattern with fork dipped into sugar (water works well too).
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Bake 9 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown.
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Note: about 1 minute before they are done it helps to lift and bang the sheet on the rack and turn it.
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Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet.
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Cool on a wire rack.
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Other note: you can use all butter/margarine to replace the shortening and probably would work vice versa as well.