Chocolate Drop Cookies
Arwilda kept six different recipes with this title.
Betty white-sugar, lard, sour-milk, and nut formula partial recipe
Decorative Recipe Tin Betty formula card
From Betty.
Ingredients
- 1 C sugar
- ½ C lard
- 1 egg
- 1 t soda - vanilla
- ½ C sour milk
- 1 C nuts
- ½ C cocoa
- 1½ C flour
Double note with extra shortening and unresolved brown sugar
Blue Binder uncertain Double page
From Aunt Donna Williams recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 cups shortening
- an incomplete or degraded quantity beginning 2 before cups brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 6 cups flour
- 2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 2 cups cocoa
Directions
- Cream shortening + sugar
- Add eggs, milk & vanilla
- Mix well, Add flour, Baking Soda and cocoa and mix well.
- Drop by spoon full 2 inches apart.
- Bake 350° degree oven 8 to 10 min.
Timing: 8 to 10 min.
Temperature: 350°
Equipment: mixing bowl and utensil, spoon or ice cream scoop, baking surface, oven
Notes
- Just Good!; an edited scoop-size note; Depends on size of scoop use.; Double
As written
Choc Drop Cookie Aunt Donna Williams recipe 2 cups shortening an incomplete or degraded quantity beginning 2 before cups brown sugar 4 eggs 2 cups milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 6 cups flour 2 teaspoon Baking Soda 2 cups cocoa Cream shortening + sugar Add eggs, milk & vanilla Mix well, Add flour, Baking Soda and cocoa and mix well. Drop by spoon full 2 inches apart. Bake 350° degree oven 8 to 10 min. 8 to 10 min. 350° mixing bowl and utensil, spoon or ice cream scoop, baking surface, oven Just Good!; an edited scoop-size note; Depends on size of scoop use.; Double
Double-size formula with two teaspoons vanilla and #40 scoop
Blue Binder Aunt Donnie reduced-vanilla double page
From Aunt Donnie [surname unclear] recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 cup shortening
- 4 cups brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 6 cups flour
- 2 tsp Baking Soda
- 2 cups cocoa
Directions
- Cream shortening - sugar
- add eggs -> milk & vanilla
- mix well, add flour
- Baking Soda & cocoa, mix well.
- Drop by spoonful 2 inches apart.
- I use #40 scoop.
- Bake 350 8-10 min
- (Depends on scoop size)
Timing: 8-10 min
Temperature: 350
Equipment: mixing vessel and utensil, spoon or #40 scoop, baking surface, oven
Notes
- Very Good
As written
Great Donni Wellecin recipe
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A complete recipe, the Very Good endorsement, circled 3 and 6, and Aunt Donnie attribution are visible; one deleted unit and the surname remain uncertain.
Exact double with four teaspoons vanilla and #20 scoop
Blue Binder exact-double Aunt Donna Williams page
From Aunt Donna Williams recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 cup shortening
- 4 cups Brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 4 teaspoon Vanilla
- 6 cups flour
- 2 tsp Baking soda
- 2 cups cocoa
Directions
- Cream shortening + sugar
- add eggs milk and Vanilla mix well
- add flour, Baking soda & cocoa, mix well
- Drop by #20 scoop 2 inches apart on greased Baking sheet
- Bake 350° 8 to 10 minutes
Timing: 8 to 10 minutes
Temperature: 350°
Equipment: #20 scoop; Baking sheet
Notes
- Double; Very Good
As written
Double
Very Good
Half-batch formula with three Blue Binder cards
Blue Binder Aunt Minnie half-batch page
Yield: circled 12 inside the Very ... Good annotation
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2 cups Brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 cup cocoa
Directions
- Cream shortening and sugar add eggs, milk and vanilla and mix well.
- Add flour, Baking soda and cocoa, and mix well.
- Drop by # 40 scoop 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes
Timing: 8-10 minutes
Temperature: 350°
Equipment: mixing bowl; creaming and mixing utensil; #40 scoop; greased cookie sheet; oven
Notes
- Very (12) Good
As written
Very (12) Good
Blue Binder Aunt Donna Williams half-batch page
From Aunt Donna Williams recipe.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2 cups Brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 cup cocoa
Directions
- Cream shortening and sugar.
- Add eggs, milk & vanilla
- Mix well, add flour, Baking soda, cocoa and mix well.
- Drop by spoon full - 2 inches apart.
- A corrected 350 note followed by I use ice cream scoop
- Bake 350° degree oven
- 8 to 10 min.
Timing: 8 to 10 min.
Temperature: 350; 350°
Equipment: ice cream scoop and oven are explicitly named or directly specified
Notes
- I use ice cream scoop
Blue Binder copied half-batch page
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2 cup Brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1 cup cocoa
Directions
- Cream shortening - sugar,
- Add eggs, milk & vanilla
- Mix well, add flour
- Baking soda, cocoa & mix well
- Drop by spoon full - 2 inch apart.
- use #40 scoop
- Bake 350 - 8-10 min -
Timing: 8-10 min
Temperature: 350
Equipment: #40 scoop
As written
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Small lard-option recipe with optional miniature chocolate chips
Clear Tote Arwilda Williams small chocolate-chip card
From Arwilda Williams.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup shortening (or lard)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon soda
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 3/4 cup mini choc chip. (optional)
Directions
- Cream shortening and sugar
- add egg + milk, & mix. Add rest ingredients & mix well.
- Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet. I use #30 icecream scoop
- Bake @ 350° for 8 to 10 min. or until done.
Timing: 8 to 10 min.
Temperature: 350°
Equipment: mixing bowl; mixing utensil; spoon or #30 ice cream scoop; greased cookie sheet; oven
Notes
- I use #30 icecream scoop
As written
RECIPE: From the Kitchen of:
Cooking Club America
Compare the cards
Batch size, shortening, vanilla, and optional chocolate chips
- Blue Binder Aunt Minnie half-batch page
- 1/2 cup shortening, 2 cups brown sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and 1 cup cocoa.
- Blue Binder exact-double Aunt Donna Williams page
- 1 cup shortening, 4 cups brown sugar, 4 eggs, 2 cups milk, 4 teaspoons vanilla, 6 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking soda, and 2 cups cocoa.
- Blue Binder Aunt Donnie reduced-vanilla double page
- The doubled quantities use only 2 teaspoons vanilla rather than 4.
- Blue Binder uncertain Double page
- 2 cups shortening, an unresolved brown-sugar quantity, 4 eggs, 2 cups milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 6 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking soda, and 2 cups cocoa.
- Clear Tote Arwilda Williams small chocolate-chip card
- 1/4 cup shortening or lard, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 cup milk, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 1/2 cup cocoa, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and optional 3/4 cup miniature chocolate chips.
- Decorative Recipe Tin Betty formula card
- 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup lard, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon soda, vanilla with no stated amount, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 cup nuts, 1/2 cup cocoa, and 1 1/2 cups flour.
Portioning scoop and spacing
- Blue Binder Aunt Minnie half-batch page
- #40 scoop, two inches apart on a greased cookie sheet.
- Blue Binder exact-double Aunt Donna Williams page
- #20 scoop, two inches apart on a greased baking sheet.
- Blue Binder Aunt Donnie reduced-vanilla double page
- Spoonfuls two inches apart; writer uses a #40 scoop and says timing depends on scoop size.
- Blue Binder uncertain Double page
- Spoonfuls two inches apart; overlapping #30 and #70 scoop readings with unclear edit order.
- Clear Tote Arwilda Williams small chocolate-chip card
- Spoonfuls on a greased cookie sheet; writer uses a #30 ice cream scoop.
Method and formula gaps
- Clear Tote Arwilda Williams small chocolate-chip card
- The two-sided card supplies a complete mixing, dropping, temperature, timing, and portioning method.
- Decorative Recipe Tin Betty formula card
- The single card supplies ingredients only. Vanilla has no stated amount, and no preparation, portioning, temperature, timing, or yield is included.
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