Peanut Butter Cupcakes (1950)

•  2 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 1/2 tspns baking powder
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 1/3 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1 tspn vanilla
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 3/4 cup milk

Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. 

Cream shortening with 1 cup brown sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Add peanut butter and mix thoroughly. Beat eggs until light and beat in remaining sugar. Add to creamed mixture and blend well. 

Add sifted ingredients and milk alternately in small amounts, beating thoroughly after each addition. Pour into greased cupcake pans and bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) 25 to 30 minutes. Makes 18.

More "Lost" Culinary Arts Institute Recipes

Butter Stick Cookies (1950)

Peanut Butter Brown Sugar Cookies (1950)

(Origin - "Norge Binding of the Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedia Cookbook" published by the Culinary Arts Institute, 1950.)