Chocolate Chip–Peanut Drop Cookies

The only cookie Southerners love more than ultrachewy chocolate chip cookies are ultrachewy chocolate chip cookies that have the added crunch of peanuts. Just as we like an undercooked “sad streak” running through our pound cakes, we’ve learned that the softest cookies are drop cookies baked just till they begin to brown slightly—an explanation for why these should not be cooked a second longer than 10 minutes, if that. I know one lady in Virginia who is so particular about these cookies th