Peanut Blossoms

Quick, yummy and beautiful.

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar -- cream these all together

Add 1 egg and 2 T milk and 1 tsp. Vanilla --- cream again

1 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp. soda
1/2 salt

Shape into balls and roll in a bowl of white sugar. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 8 minutes and remove from the oven and place the chocolate kiss in the center of each cookie, pressing gently down. Return to oven for 2-5 more minutes.