Pineapple Cookies
Arwilda kept three different recipes with this title.
Handwritten separated-egg recipe
Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
Ingredients
- ½ C w sugar
- ½ C b sugar
- ½ C shortening
- 1 egg - beat each separate.
- 2 C flour
- ½ t salt
- ½ t soda
- ½ t vanilla
- ½ C drained crushed pineapple
Directions
- Cream - add yolk then fold in white then rest of ing.
Temperature: 400°
As written
Mil's
Large-batch frosted drop-cookie partial recipe
Blue Binder handwritten Pineapple Drop Cookies page
Yield: Make about 6 dozen
Ingredients
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 3 eggs
- 4 cups
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup crushed pineapple drained
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- 4 cups [ingredient noun absent]; confectioners sugar, quantity not stated; pineapple juice, quantity not stated
Directions
- Cream:
- add & mix well:
- Sift
- add:
- Mix well
- Drop by teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheets.
- Bake at 375° for 10 minute
- When cool Frost with frosting made of confectioners sugar and pineapple juice.
- Make about 6 dozen
Timing: 10 minute
Temperature: 375 degrees; cool before frosting
Equipment: measuring cups and spoons; mixing bowls; creaming utensil or mixer; sifter; pineapple-draining vessel; knife and cutting board; teaspoon; lightly greased cookie sheets; oven; cooling rack or surface; frosting bowl and spreading utensil
Arwilda’s changes
- A separate handwritten line was densely crossed out; the original text cannot be recovered from the supplied image.
Typed drop-cookie recipe
Old Binder typed card and blank reverse
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup crushed pineapple drained
- 1/3 cup pineapple juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoon milk
- 2teaspoon baking powder
- 2 1/2 cups flour
Directions
- Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, pineapple and juice. Add flour, vanilla, milk, and baking powder.
- Drop by spoon full on a greased baking sheet.
- Bake in 400-410 oven about 10-12 minutes.
Timing: about 10-12 minutes
Temperature: 400-410 oven
Equipment: mixing vessel and utensil, spoon, greased baking sheet, oven
Notes
- Dates, nuts or chocolate chips may be added.
As written
Pineapple Cookies 3/4 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/3 cup crushed pineapple drained 1/3 cup pineapple juice 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 teaspoon milk 2teaspoon baking powder 2 1/2 cups flour Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, pineapple and juice. Add flour, vanilla, milk, and baking powder. Drop by spoon full on a greased baking sheet. Bake in 400-410 oven about 10-12 minutes. about 10-12 minutes 400-410 oven mixing vessel and utensil, spoon, greased baking sheet, oven Dates, nuts or chocolate chips may be added.
Compare the cards
Sweeteners, fat, and eggs
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup shortening, and 1 separated egg
- Old Binder typed card and blank reverse
- 1 cup sugar, 3/4 cup butter, and 2 eggs
- Blue Binder handwritten Pineapple Drop Cookies page
- 1 cup shortening, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 cup packed brown sugar, and 3 eggs
Pineapple and added liquid
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- 1/2 cup drained crushed pineapple; no pineapple juice or milk listed
- Old Binder typed card and blank reverse
- 1/3 cup drained crushed pineapple, 1/3 cup pineapple juice, and 2 teaspoons milk
- Blue Binder handwritten Pineapple Drop Cookies page
- 1 cup drained crushed pineapple in the dough; pineapple juice of unstated quantity in the frosting; no milk listed
Flour, leavening, and salt
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- 2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Old Binder typed card and blank reverse
- 2 1/2 cups flour and 2 teaspoons baking powder; no salt listed
- Blue Binder handwritten Pineapple Drop Cookies page
- 4 cups with ingredient noun absent, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda; no visible salt
Mixing and baking method
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- Cream base, add yolk, fold in white, then remaining ingredients; 400 degrees with no bake time
- Old Binder typed card and blank reverse
- Cream butter and sugar, add whole eggs and remaining ingredients, drop by spoonful, and bake at 400-410 for about 10-12 minutes
- Blue Binder handwritten Pineapple Drop Cookies page
- Cream shortening and sugars, add 3 eggs, sift the unresolved four-cup ingredient with two leaveners, add vanilla, pineapple, and nuts, drop by teaspoonfuls, bake at 375 for 10 minutes, cool, and frost
Optional additions
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- No optional additions stated
- Old Binder typed card and blank reverse
- Dates, nuts, or chocolate chips may be added
- Blue Binder handwritten Pineapple Drop Cookies page
- 1 cup chopped nuts is required; no optional dates or chocolate chips
Frosting component
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
- No frosting component is included
- Old Binder typed card and blank reverse
- No frosting component
- Blue Binder handwritten Pineapple Drop Cookies page
- When cool, frost with frosting made of confectioners sugar and pineapple juice; quantities not stated
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