Oat Meal Cookies
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Baked oatmeal drop cookies with raisins or coconut
Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-card card
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup shortening; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 3 cups Quick Mother Oats
- 2 eggs.
- 1 Cup & 2 Tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup seedless raisins
Directions
- Cream shortening + sugar, beat in eggs one at a time.
- Sift to-gether flour baking powder + salt.
- Add to Creamed mixture alternately with milk.
- Stir in vanilla.
- Add raisins & Oat meal.
- Drop from teaspoon on greased Cookie sheet.
- Bake in 375° oven about 10-minutes
Timing: about 10 minutes
Temperature: 375° oven
Equipment: mixing bowl, creaming and beating utensil, sifter, teaspoon, greased cookie sheet, and oven
As written
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Decorative Recipe Tin two-page card
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup and 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup raisins or coconut
- 3 cups quick mother oats or
Directions
- Cream together 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup shortening
- beat in 2 eggs - 1 at a time
- Sift together 1 cup and 2 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt.
- Add to creamed mixture 1/3 cup milk
- Add 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Drop from teaspoon on greased cookie sheet.
- Bake in 375° oven about 10-15- minutes -
Timing: about 10-15- minutes -
Temperature: 375° oven
Equipment: greased cookie sheet
Partial cinnamon and raisin recipe
Decorative Recipe Tin ingredient-only cinnamon card
Ingredients
- 3/4 C shortening
- 1 C sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 C 2 T flour
- 1 t baking powder
- 1/4 t salt
- 1/3 C milk
- 1 t Cinnamon
- 1 t Vanilla
- 1 C raisins
- 3 C Mother Oats
Timing: 15 min.
Temperature: 375°
Equipment: oven
Notes
- the card supplies ingredients, a baking temperature, and a baking duration but no mixing, shaping, pan-preparation, or doneness directions
Compare the cards
One-cup mix-in
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-page card
- 1 cup raisins or coconut
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-card card
- 1 cup seedless raisins
- Decorative Recipe Tin ingredient-only cinnamon card
- 1 cup raisins
Bake duration at 375 degrees
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-page card
- about 10-15 minutes
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-card card
- about 10 minutes
- Decorative Recipe Tin ingredient-only cinnamon card
- 15 minutes
Unresolved card marks
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-page card
- The oats line ends with an underlined or and an earlier line contains an unreadable overwritten mark.
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-card card
- The ingredient card has an unexplained marginal 202.
Cinnamon
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-card card
- No cinnamon
- Decorative Recipe Tin ingredient-only cinnamon card
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
Mixing and shaping method
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-card card
- Complete creaming, combining, dropping, and baking method
- Decorative Recipe Tin ingredient-only cinnamon card
- Only 375 degrees and 15 minutes are included
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