For YEARS I have been wishing for the recipe for the peanut butter cookies that I had as a kid in elementary school in the mid-to late-70's. They used to sell them for .15 each and they were cut into big bars. I was in 2nd grade and at "nutrition" break we would run up to a side door at the cafeteria and could get these cookies and milk (or chocolate milk, the ultimate combination!) or orange juice (which was .15; milk was .10)
Anyway, I was going to try and send a note to the LA Times, since they were so kind as to print the LAUSD coffee cake recipe back in 1995, and see if they might be able to get the peanut butter cookie recipe. I made that coffee cake last year and took it to my work, and walked around asking people if they went to school here in Los Angeles. If they did, I would say "do you remember the coffee cake?" which was always met with a heartfelt "Yeah!" then I'd give them a piece of what I'd made and then just watched the swooning ensue.
I'll post the coffee cake recipe in another message, since I mentioned it. But if anyone happens to have that cookie recipe, I would be thrilled. I've made lots of great peanut butter cookies but none of them are quite the same as the ones from Toluca Lake Elementary around
1976.