Oat Meal Cookies

Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.

Baked oatmeal drop cookies with raisins or coconut

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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

  1. Cream shortening + sugar, beat in eggs one at a time.
  2. Sift to-gether flour baking powder + salt.
  3. Add to Creamed mixture alternately with milk.
  4. Stir in vanilla.
  5. Add raisins & Oat meal.
  6. Drop from teaspoon on greased Cookie sheet.
  7. 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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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

  1. Cream together 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup shortening
  2. beat in 2 eggs - 1 at a time
  3. Sift together 1 cup and 2 tablespoons flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt.
  4. Add to creamed mixture 1/3 cup milk
  5. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla
  6. Drop from teaspoon on greased cookie sheet.
  7. 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

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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

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One-cup mix-in

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1 cup raisins or coconut
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1 cup seedless raisins
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1 cup raisins

Bake duration at 375 degrees

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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

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The oats line ends with an underlined or and an earlier line contains an unreadable overwritten mark.
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The ingredient card has an unexplained marginal 202.

Cinnamon

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No cinnamon
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1 teaspoon Cinnamon

Mixing and shaping method

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Complete creaming, combining, dropping, and baking method
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Only 375 degrees and 15 minutes are included

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