| 1 | Beat the egg. |
| 2 | Don"t let your neighbours find out, though. |
| 3 | Mix everything together. |
| 4 | Preheat oven to 325 °F. |
| 5 | Place blobs of cookie dough on a greased cookie sheet in the size you like, and flatten with a fork to make the traditional peanut-butter cookie pattern. |
| 6 | Put in oven and bake for 8-10 minutes. |
| 7 | Notes: * these are very simple peanut-butter cookies -- they turn out a little moist, but are yummy. |
| 8 | * these cookies are a bit moist, so don"t worry about that. |
| 9 | Don"t burn them; they don"t taste good when they"re burnt. |
| 10 | : difficulty: easy. |
| 11 | : time: 5 minutes preparation, 10 minutes baking. |
| 12 | : precision: measure the ingredients. |
| 13 | : andrew scott beals : lawrence livermore national laboratory, computation research group : livermore, california, u.s.a. |