A drop cookie is a dough that is dropped from a spoon onto the baking sheet. These days, I use a scoop that looks like a mini ice cream scoop because it gives me a perfectly rounded ball of dough. But as I was learning to bake from my mother, we used two spoons – one scooped the dough from the bowl and the other scraped it off that spoon and onto the baking sheet. I don’t expect there is really a huge advantage of one over the other and is probably personal preference which way you drop your cookies.

Peanut Drop Cookies

2 tbsp butter

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup flour

1 tsp B. P.

1/4 tsp dalt

2 tbsp milk

1/2 cup finely rolled peanuts

1/2 tsp lemon juice