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

  1. Cream the shortening and sugar.
  2. Add egg, vanilla and Peanut butter.
  3. Beat well.
  4. Mix in sifted flour, soda & salt.
  5. Shape in small balls and flatten.
  6. 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

  1. 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
  1. Beat together P. Butter and egg. Add sugar x Cream alternately. Beat well

Temperature: Beat well

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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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