Peanut Butter Cookies
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Betty or Drop Cookies soda-and-vanilla formula
Two-sided Peanut Butter Drop Cookies card
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup Brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon soda
- 1/2 cup White sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Cream the shortening and sugar.
- Add egg, vanilla and Peanut butter.
- Beat well.
- Mix in sifted flour, soda & salt.
- Shape in small balls and flatten.
- Bake on cookie sheet 10 Min. in 375 degree oven.
Timing: Beat well; 10 Min.
Temperature: 375 degree oven
Equipment: sifter, mixing bowl and beating utensil, shaping or flattening utensil, cookie sheet, oven
As written
Peanut Butter Drop Cookies 1/2 cup Peanut butter 1 egg 1/2 cup shortening 1 1/2 cups flour 1/2 cup Brown sugar 1 teaspoon soda 1/2 cup White sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon salt Cream the shortening and sugar. Add egg, vanilla and Peanut butter. Beat well. Mix in sifted flour, soda & salt. Shape in small balls and flatten. Bake on cookie sheet 10 Min. in 375 degree oven. Beat well; 10 Min. 375 degree oven sifter, mixing bowl and beating utensil, shaping or flattening utensil, cookie sheet, oven
Betty card, with from Peter Pan note
From Betty.
Ingredients
- ½ C shortening.
- ½ C peanut butter.
- ½ C B. sugar.
- ½ C w sugar.
- 1 egg
- ½ t vanilla
- 1½ C flour.
- 1 t soda
Directions
- Sift dry - pat out
Equipment: sifter and work surface
Notes
- Betty / from Peter Pan
As written
A fully legible title, eight ingredients, attribution, card note, and one terse method line.
P. B Drop cookies with P. B Icing
Green Recipe Box P. B Drop cookies and icing sheet
P. B Drop cookies
Yield: 44 cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 c. Shortening
- 1/2 c. white Sugar; 1/2 c. Brown Sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla
- 1/2 Peanut Butter
- 1 1/3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Timing: 10 min
Temperature: Oven 375
Equipment: Oven
P. B Icing
Ingredients
- 1/4 C. Peanut Butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 C powdered Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons cream
Directions
- Beat together P. Butter and egg. Add sugar x Cream alternately. Beat well
Temperature: Beat well
Compare the cards
Method and baking endpoint
- Betty card, with from Peter Pan note
- Sift dry - pat out; no temperature or time is included.
- Two-sided Peanut Butter Drop Cookies card
- Shape in small balls and flatten. Bake on cookie sheet 10 Min. in 375 degree oven.
- Green Recipe Box P. B Drop cookies and icing sheet
- Oven 375; 10 min; no mixing, shaping, pan, or doneness direction is included.
Flour, salt, and peanut-butter unit
- Two-sided Peanut Butter Drop Cookies card
- 1 1/2 cups flour; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup peanut butter.
- Green Recipe Box P. B Drop cookies and icing sheet
- 1 1/3 cups flour; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/2 peanut butter with no unit.
Yield
- Two-sided Peanut Butter Drop Cookies card
- No yield stated.
- Green Recipe Box P. B Drop cookies and icing sheet
- 44 cookies.
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