Toll House Pan Cookies and Marble Squares
Arwilda kept four different recipes with this title.
Half-teaspoon-water recipe
Clear Tote two-sided Favorite Recipe card
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter or shortening (soft)
- 6 Tablespoons white sugar
- 6 tablespoons brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ tsp. water
- 1 egg.
- 1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons flour.
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ tsp salt.
- 6 oz package chocolate bits
- Nuts
Directions
- Blend or cream
- Sift and mix well with above ingredients -
- Nuts may also be added.
- Use 13" x 9" x 2" pan.
- Sprinkle 6 oz package chocolate bits over top.
- Put in oven 1 min. Remove and marbleize with knife.
- Return to oven and bake 12 to 14 mins.
- Bake: 375° oven
Timing: 1 min.; 12 to 14 mins.
Temperature: butter or shortening (soft); 375° oven
Equipment: 13" x 9" x 2" pan; oven; knife
As written
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Larger two-egg 350-degree recipe
Clear Tote two-sided Marble Squares card
Ingredients
- 1 c butter (softened)
- 1/2 c plus 4 Tblsn sugar
- 1/2 c plus 4 Tbl brown sugar (packed)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 eggs.
- 2 c flour
- 1 tsp soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 c coarsely chopped walnuts (optional)
- 1-6 oz. package chocolate chips
Directions
- grease a 9x13 pan.
- Mix the butter, sugar, & vanilla thoroughly.
- Beat in eggs and blend in flour, soda, and salt.
- add nuts.
- Spread in the pan.
- Sprinkle the chocolate chips on top of the dough.
- Place in oven two min.
- Remove from oven and run a knife through the dough to marbleize it.
- Return to oven
- Bake 27 min at 350 degrees.
- Cool & cut in squares
Timing: two min.; 27 min
Temperature: 350 degrees
Equipment: 9x13 pan; oven; knife
Quarter-teaspoon-water recipe
Old Binder typed card
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter or shortening (soft)
- 6 tablespoon brown sugar
- 6 tablespoon white sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon water
- 1 egg
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoon flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 6 oz. packages chocolate bits; nuts may also be added, quantity not stated
Directions
- Blend or cream
- Sift and mix well with above ingredients
- Nuts may also be added.
- Use 13" x 9" x 2" pan.
- Sprinkle 6oz. packages chocolate bits over top. Put in oven 1 minute. Remove and marblize with knife. Return to oven and bake 12 to 14 minutes.
- Bake at 375°oven.
Timing: Put in oven 1 minute.; bake 12 to 14 minutes
Temperature: 375°oven
Equipment: 13" x 9" x 2" pan; knife
Notes
- Nuts may also be added.
Blue Binder black-and-white two-minute card
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Butter or shortening soften.
- 6 Tablespoon white sugar
- 6 Tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon water
- 1 egg
- 1 cup plus 2 Tablespoon flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- optional nuts and 6 oz chocolate bits are ingredients used by the method
Directions
- Cream.
- Cream governs the butter or shortening, both sugars, vanilla, water, and egg block; sift and mix governs flour, baking soda, and salt
- Nuts may also be added.
- use a 9" x 13" x 2" pan greased.
- Bake 375° degree oven
- Spread 6 oz choc bits over Top.
- Put in Oven for 2 min.
- Remove and marbleize with Knife
- Return to oven and Bake 12 to 14 minutes
Timing: 2 min.; 12 to 14 minutes
Temperature: 375° degree oven
Equipment: mixing bowl and creaming tool, sifter, greased pan, oven, spreading utensil, and knife; Knife
Notes
- Nuts may also be added is an optional-ingredient note
Blue Binder blue-ink one-minute card
Ingredients
- 1/2 butter or shortening soft
- 6 Tablespoon white sugar
- 6 Tablespoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 tsp water
- 1 egg
- 1 cup plus 2 Tablespoon flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Nuts may also be added is a detached optional note between the dry ingredients and pan instruction.
- 6 oz package choc. bits
Directions
- Cream
- Sift and mix well with above ingredients
- use a 13"x9" x 2" pan
- Sprinkle 6 oz package choc. bits over Top. Put in oven 1 min.
- Remove and marbleize with knife.
- Return to oven and Bake 12 to 14 min.
- Bake 375 degree oven
Timing: Put in oven 1 min.; Bake 12 to 14 min.
Temperature: 375 degree oven
Equipment: sifter, mixing vessel and utensil, 13"x9" x 2" pan, knife, oven
Notes
- Nuts may also be added.
As written
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Stirred-chip Toll House Pan Cookies recipe
Clear Tote two-sided Toll House Pan Cookies card
Yield: Joined notations consistent with 16 two-inch squares and 24 two-inch squares
Ingredients
- 1 cup + 2 Tbsp Flour
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 6 Tbsp Brown Sugar
- 6 Tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 cups chips
- 1/2 cup chopped Nuts
Directions
- Combine butter, both sugars + vanilla. Beat until creamy. Beat in egg, Add Flour mixture, mix well. Stir in chips + nuts.
- Spread the dough into greased 9" pan.
- Bake at 375° for 20-25 min. Cool & cut into squares.
- For super pan cookies spread dough into greased 15x9x2" pan. Bake 375° for 12-15 min. Cool & cut into squares.
Timing: 20-25 min; 12-15 min
Temperature: 375°
Equipment: mixing bowl, beater, stirring utensil, greased 9-inch pan or greased 15 by 9 by 2-inch pan, oven, cooling surface, and knife; greased 15x9x2" pan
Notes
- For super pan cookies
As written
(Yield)
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “both”
Compare the cards
Water quantity
- Old Binder typed card
- 1/4 teaspoon water
- Clear Tote two-sided Favorite Recipe card
- 1/2 tsp. water
Initial chocolate softening in oven
- Old Binder typed card
- Put in oven 1 minute
- Blue Binder black-and-white two-minute card
- Put in Oven for 2 min.
- Clear Tote two-sided Favorite Recipe card
- Put in oven 1 min.
First ingredient unit
- Old Binder typed card
- 1/2 cup butter or shortening (soft)
- Blue Binder blue-ink one-minute card
- 1/2 butter or shortening soft
Base formula and additions
- Old Binder typed card
- 1/2 cup fat; 6 tablespoons each sugar; 1 egg; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour; 1/4 teaspoon water; 6 oz chocolate bits; nuts optional without quantity.
- Clear Tote two-sided Marble Squares card
- 1 cup butter; 3/4 cup each sugar; 2 eggs; 2 cups flour; no water; 6 oz chocolate chips; 1 cup walnuts optional.
Oven profile after marbling
- Old Binder typed card
- 375 degrees; return to oven and bake 12 to 14 minutes.
- Clear Tote two-sided Marble Squares card
- 350 degrees; return to oven and bake 27 minutes.
Water, chips, and nuts in the small base dough
- Old Binder typed card
- 1/4 teaspoon water, 6 ounces chocolate bits, and optional nuts without a quantity.
- Clear Tote two-sided Toll House Pan Cookies card
- No water listed, 2 cups chips, and 1/2 cup chopped nuts.
Chocolate handling, pan shape, and bake profile
- Old Binder typed card
- Spread in an 8-inch square pan, sprinkle chocolate on top, soften it in the oven, marble with a knife, then bake 12 to 14 minutes at 375 degrees.
- Clear Tote two-sided Toll House Pan Cookies card
- Stir chips and nuts into the dough; use a greased 9-inch pan for 20 to 25 minutes or a 15-by-9-by-2-inch pan for 12 to 15 minutes at 375 degrees.
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