Pumpkin Cookies
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Brown-sugar, egg, raisin, and nut recipe
Blue Binder handwritten plural-title card numbered 17
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/4 cup packed Brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup pumpkin
- 2 1/2 cups sifted flour
- 4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nut meg.
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup nuts (walnuts)
Directions
- Cream shortening + sugar and add eggs + mix well.
- Mix in vanilla and pumpkin.
- Add dry ingredients & mix.
- Stir in raisins & nuts.
- Bake at 350 degree oven about 8-10 minutes
- Use #40 scoop to drop cookies
Timing: about 8-10 minutes
Temperature: 350 degree oven
Equipment: #40 scoop; oven
As written
17
Blue Binder handwritten singular-title card with circled 5
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/4 cup packed Brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup pumpkin
- 2 1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 cup raisins, if desire; 1 cup nuts, if desire
Directions
- Cream shortening, sugar and add eggs and Beat.
- Mix Vanilla and pumpkin in.
- Add dry ingredients and mix well.
- Stir in raisins and nuts.
- Drop on greased cookie sheet With teaspoon or #40 scoop.
- Bake at 350° degree oven about 8 to 10 minutes.
Timing: about 8 to 10 minutes
Temperature: 350° degree oven
Equipment: greased cookie sheet; teaspoon or #40 scoop
Notes
- Raisins and nuts are optional, written 'if desire'.
As written
Donnie Hollin, candidate first-name reading Dannie
Cream:
Add & mix
add:
if desire
add:
5, circled
Arwilda’s changes
- Crossed out “Hollin”
Clear Tote illustrated two-sided card
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup pumpkin
- 2 1/2 cup sifted flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup nuts
Directions
- Cream shortening sugar and add eggs beat. mix vanilla & pumpkin
- Sift Dry ingredients. Stir in raisins & nuts
- Bake at 350° - 8 to 10 minutes
Timing: 8 to 10 minutes
Temperature: 350°
Equipment: 350-degree baking oven
Notes
- may leave out both or one.
As written
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Donna-attributed typed two-sided card
From Donna.
Ingredients
- 1/2 C. shortening
- 1 1/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teas. vanilla
- 1 1/2 c. pumpkin
- 2 1/2 c. sifted flour
- 4 teas. baking powder
- 1/2 teas. salt
- 1/2 teas. cinnamon
- 1/2 teas. nutmeg
- 1 c. raisins
- 1 c. nuts
Directions
- Cream shortening, sugar, and add eggs
- BEAT: Mix vanilla and pumpkin. Add dry ingredients. Stir in raisins and nuts
- Bake at 350
- Drop by teaspoonfuls
Temperature: 350
Equipment: mixing bowl; mixer or beater; teaspoon; baking sheet; oven
Notes
- raisins and nuts may leave out
As written
Donna
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Arwilda’s changes
- Changed “1 c. raisins; 1 c. nuts” to “may leave out”
Orange-peel recipe with light-brown glaze
Clear Tote handwritten orange-peel and glaze recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup canned pumpkin; 1/2 cup shortening; 1 T. grated Orange Peel
- 2 cup flour
- 1 tsp. Bake Pow
- 1 tsp Bake Soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup chop nut
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 cup powder sugar
- 1-2 Tables milk
Directions
- mix sugar, pum. org peel shortening. Mix rest except raisin & nut & then all
- drop by Tsp full ungreased Cookie sheet; Stir sugar & vanilla. [crossed-out text] stir in Milk until smooth.
- Bake until light brown 8-10 min
- heat margerine until deep brown
Timing: 8-10 min
Temperature: 375 for the cookies and heat margarine until deep brown for the frosting
Equipment: ungreased cookie sheet, oven, mixing equipment, teaspoon, and a heating vessel for browning the frosting fat
Notes
- Frosting Light Brown glaze
As written
Kuby
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “stir in Milk until smooth.”
Compare the cards
Principal cookie formula
- Blue Binder handwritten plural-title card numbered 17
- Brown sugar, two eggs, 1 1/2 cups pumpkin, 2 1/2 cups flour, and four teaspoons baking powder
- Clear Tote handwritten orange-peel and glaze recipe
- White sugar, no eggs, one cup canned pumpkin, two cups flour, orange peel, baking powder, and baking soda
Baking powder in brown-sugar cards
- Blue Binder handwritten singular-title card with circled 5
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- Blue Binder handwritten plural-title card numbered 17
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- Donna-attributed typed two-sided card
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- Clear Tote illustrated two-sided card
- No baking powder is written
Salt in brown-sugar cards
- Blue Binder handwritten plural-title card numbered 17
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Clear Tote illustrated two-sided card
- 1 teaspoon salt
Cookie baking temperature and glaze
- Blue Binder handwritten plural-title card numbered 17
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 8 to 10 minutes; no glaze
- Clear Tote handwritten orange-peel and glaze recipe
- Bake at 375 until light brown, 8 to 10 minutes; finish with Light Brown glaze
Directions in brown-sugar cards
- Blue Binder handwritten plural-title card numbered 17
- Complete eight-to-ten-minute method with number 40 scoop
- Donna-attributed typed two-sided card
- No baking duration or stated baking surface
- Clear Tote illustrated two-sided card
- Eight-to-ten-minute bake but no cookie-portioning direction
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