Peanut Butter Cookies
Recipe-tin card, PDF page 8
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 egg well beaten
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder sifted with flour
Directions
- Make small balls on greased cookie sheet. Press flat with fork
- Bake in 375° oven about 10-15 minutes
Timing: about 10-15 minutes
Temperature: 375° oven
Equipment: greased cookie sheet; fork; 375° oven
Growson box card with yield
Yield: Makes about 3 dzs.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup shortening or butter; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 1/2 cup white sugar, with handwritten ditto marks carrying forward cup
- 1 egg; well beaten
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking Powder
Directions
- Cream together and Sift together are marginal relationship instructions beside ingredient groups, followed by Make small balls on Cookie Sheet and Press flat with silver fork.
Equipment: Cookie Sheet and silver fork are explicitly named
Recipe-tin card, PDF page 9
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup peanut butter; 1/4 cup shortening; 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar; 1 cup flour.
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 egg, well beaten
- 1 teasp. baking powder, sifted with flour.
Directions
- Make small balls on greased cookie sheet.
- Press flat with fork.
- Bake in 375° oven about 10-15 minutes
Timing: about 10-15 minutes
Temperature: 375° oven
Equipment: greased cookie sheet; fork; 375° oven
Compare the cards
Baking endpoint
- Recipe-tin card, PDF page 8
- Bake in 375 degree oven about 10-15 minutes.
- Growson box card with yield
- The card ends after pressing flat and gives no baking endpoint.
Yield
- Recipe-tin card, PDF page 8
- No yield is stated.
- Growson box card with yield
- Makes about 3 dzs.
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