Toll House Pan Cookies and Marble Squares

Arwilda kept four different recipes with this title.

Half-teaspoon-water recipe

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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

  1. Blend or cream
  2. Sift and mix well with above ingredients -
  3. Nuts may also be added.
  4. Use 13" x 9" x 2" pan.
  5. Sprinkle 6 oz package chocolate bits over top.
  6. Put in oven 1 min. Remove and marbleize with knife.
  7. Return to oven and bake 12 to 14 mins.
  8. 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

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Larger two-egg 350-degree recipe

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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

  1. grease a 9x13 pan.
  2. Mix the butter, sugar, & vanilla thoroughly.
  3. Beat in eggs and blend in flour, soda, and salt.
  4. add nuts.
  5. Spread in the pan.
  6. Sprinkle the chocolate chips on top of the dough.
  7. Place in oven two min.
  8. Remove from oven and run a knife through the dough to marbleize it.
  9. Return to oven
  10. Bake 27 min at 350 degrees.
  11. Cool & cut in squares

Timing: two min.; 27 min

Temperature: 350 degrees

Equipment: 9x13 pan; oven; knife

Quarter-teaspoon-water recipe

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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

  1. Blend or cream
  2. Sift and mix well with above ingredients
  3. Nuts may also be added.
  4. Use 13" x 9" x 2" pan.
  5. 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.
  6. 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

  1. Cream.
  2. Cream governs the butter or shortening, both sugars, vanilla, water, and egg block; sift and mix governs flour, baking soda, and salt
  3. Nuts may also be added.
  4. use a 9" x 13" x 2" pan greased.
  5. Bake 375° degree oven
  6. Spread 6 oz choc bits over Top.
  7. Put in Oven for 2 min.
  8. Remove and marbleize with Knife
  9. 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

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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

  1. Cream
  2. Sift and mix well with above ingredients
  3. use a 13"x9" x 2" pan
  4. Sprinkle 6 oz package choc. bits over Top. Put in oven 1 min.
  5. Remove and marbleize with knife.
  6. Return to oven and Bake 12 to 14 min.
  7. 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.

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Stirred-chip Toll House Pan Cookies recipe

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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

  1. Combine butter, both sugars + vanilla. Beat until creamy. Beat in egg, Add Flour mixture, mix well. Stir in chips + nuts.
  2. Spread the dough into greased 9" pan.
  3. Bake at 375° for 20-25 min. Cool & cut into squares.
  4. 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

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Arwilda’s changes

  • Added “both”

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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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