This recipe looks normal to me and I've been baking cookies since I was about 12 years old.
Place 2 sticks of softened butter in a mixing bowl.
Add a cup of packed brown sugar. Crack in 2 eggs (whole).
Add another cup of sugar. (Granulated, white.)
And one cup of peanut butter. Mix 'til smooth and light.
One and one half teaspoons baking soda. Then add one
Teaspoon baking powder, half of salt. (You're almost done.)
2 cups and one half of flour. Mix. Add chocolate chips.
Chill the dough, then heat the oven. (Say good-bye to hips.)
Roll the dough into a ball and then in sugar, too.
Put them on a cookie sheet and grab a fork, then you
Press down. Stick them in the oven (350) to bake
For ten minutes... Couldn't be much easier to make.
The only difference is I would beat the butter well with an electric mixer, gradually add the sugars and continue beating, then beat in the eggs.
For the dry ingredients I would mix them all together and then incorporate them slowly/gradually into the butter/sugar/egg mixture, using a wooden spoon. Plus you could add 1 tsp of vanilla to the butter mixture if you wish, first.
However, she probably had to find a way to turn it into a rhyme.
Her cookies were so good! I took several of them with us when we were leaving the cookout - they were still good on Sunday at the Charles Inn.
Oh yeah - I would have to omit the peanut butter as Josh is allergic, but overall it looks like a normal recipe to me.