Aunt Sally's Drop Cookies
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Butter Milk and chocolate frosting recipe
Old Binder typed Dortchy Shannon card
From Aunt Sally's; Dorthy Shannon.
Ingredients
- Cream:; Add:
- 1 cup Shortening (half Oleo)
- 2 cups Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1½ cup Butter Milk
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 3½ cups Flour
- 1 tsp Soda
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 cup Cocoa
- 1 cup Chopped Nuts
- chocolate frosting
Directions
- Mix all ingredunts as in line
- Chill 1 hr or more
- Bake at 400 oven for 8 to 10 min.
- Frost with chocolate frosting
Timing: Chill 1 hr or more; 8 to 10 min.
Temperature: 400 oven
Equipment: oven
Buttermilk or sour milk and chocolate icing recipe
Old Binder typed sour-milk-option card
Ingredients
- 1 cup shortening (half oleo)
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1½ cup buttermilk (or sour milk)
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3½ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup cocoa
- 1 cup chopped nuts
Directions
- Cream:
- Add:
- mix all ingredients as in line;
- Chill 1 hour or more. Bake at 400 degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Frost with chocolate icing.
- Cream applies to shortening, sugar, eggs, buttermilk or sour milk, and vanilla. Add applies to flour, soda, salt, cocoa, and chopped nuts. Then mix in the listed order, chill, bake, and frost.
Timing: Chill 1 hour or more.; 8 to 10 minutes
Temperature: 400 degree oven
Equipment: mixing bowl and utensil, refrigerator, baking sheet, oven, and frosting utensil
Notes
- The card supplies no instruction for dropping or otherwise shaping the dough before baking, and no chocolate icing formula.
Compare the cards
Milk option
- Old Binder typed Dortchy Shannon card
- 1 1/2 cup Butter Milk
- Old Binder typed sour-milk-option card
- 1 1/2 cup buttermilk or sour milk
Chocolate finish
- Old Binder typed Dortchy Shannon card
- Frost with chocalate frosting
- Old Binder typed sour-milk-option card
- Frost with chocalate icing
Lower card name
- Old Binder typed Dortchy Shannon card
- Dortchy Shannon appears below the recipe, role uncertain
- Old Binder typed sour-milk-option card
- No lower name
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