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Peanut Cookies

2 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon baking powder 14 teaspoon salt ½ cup flour 2 teaspoons milk ½ cup finely chopped peanuts 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice Cream the butter, add sugar, and egg well beaten. Mix and sift baking powder, salt, and flour; add to first mixture; then add milk, peanuts, and lemon juice. Drop from a teaspoon on a buttered sheet one inch apart, and place onehalf peanut on top of each. Bake twelve to fifteen minutes in a slow oven . This recipe will make twenty-four cookies.

One pint peanuts when shelled should yield one-half cup.