Unbaked Oatmeal Cookies

Arwilda kept four different recipes with this title.

Boiled Cookies: butter, peanut butter, three-minute boil

Decorative Recipe Tin Boiled Cookies card

Ingredients

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup butter
3 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoons cocoa

Directions

Mix together milk, cocoa, sugar and butter.
Boil 3 minutes.
Take from stove and add peanut butter and vanilla.
add oats,
Drop by Teaspoon on waxed paper.

Timing: Boil 3 minutes.

Equipment: stove; waxed paper

Coconut-centered chocolate oatmeal formula, one-minute boil

Blue Binder complete card

Yield: Make 2½ doz

Ingredients

3 cups Quick Oatmeal
6 tablespoon cocoa
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup chopped nuts - (optional)
1/2 cup Oleo
1/2 cup milk
2 cups sugar

Directions

Mix in bowl
Boil to-gether 1 min
Immediately add to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
Drop by teaspoon full on wax paper until cold.

Timing: Boil to-gether 1 min; until cold

Temperature: Boil to-gether; until cold

Equipment: mixing bowl and utensil, saucepan, teaspoon or #40 ice cream scoop, wax paper

Notes

I use a #40 ice cream scoop.
Very good.

As written

A complete legible recipe front plus three ambiguous marks and one deletion.

Blue Binder crossed-Double batch

Ingredients

6 cups oatmeal (Quick)
12 Tablespoon cocoa
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup coconut
1 cup Butter
1 cup milk
4 cups sugar

Directions

Mix
Boil for 1 minute
immediately add to dry ingredients and Mix Well.
Drop by teaspoon full or use #70 ice cream scoop on to wax Paper.

Timing: 1 minute

Equipment: #70 ice cream scoop; wax Paper

Arwilda’s changes

Crossed out “Double”

Blue Binder crossed-Single base batch

Ingredients

3 cups oat meal (quick)
6 Tablespoon cocoa
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup Butter (or Oleo)
1/2 cup milk
2 cups sugar

Directions

Mix in a bowl
Boil for 1 minute
Immediately add to dry ingredients
Mix well
Drop by teaspoonful or use a #40 ice cream scoops on Wax Paper.

Equipment: bowl; teaspoon; #40 ice cream scoop; wax paper

Arwilda’s changes

Added “No Bake oatmeal Cookie”

Clear Tote coconut-only card

Ingredients

3 cups Oatmeal
6 Tablespoon cocoa
1 Teaspoon vanilla
½ cup coconut
½ cup oleo
2 cups sugar
½ cup milk

Directions

Mix in bowl:
Boil together 1 minute:
Immediately add to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
Drop by teaspoonful on to wax paper until cool.

Timing: Boil together 1 minute

Equipment: bowl; wax paper

Clear Tote edited two-sided card

Yield: Makes 3½ dz; Double is a separate scaling annotation; an earlier 4 dozen is crossed out

Ingredients

3 cups Quick Oatmeal
6 tablespoons cocoa
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup coconut is crossed out
½ cup chopped nuts
½ cup Oleo
½ cup milk
2 cups sugar

Directions

mix in bowl
Boil together 1 min.
Immediately add to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
Drop by teaspoon full on wax paper until cool.

Timing: boil together 1 minute; leave dropped cookies until cool.

Temperature: boiling, then cooling

Equipment: mixing bowl; saucepan; teaspoon; wax paper

Notes

like it very well

Clear Tote red-line two-card card

Unbaked oatmeal cookies

Ingredients

3 cups quick oatmeal
6 tblsp cocoa
1 tsp vanilla
½ cup coconut
½ cup chopped nuts (optional)
½ cup oleo
½ cup milk
2 cup sugar

Directions

Mix in bowl:
Immediately add to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Drop by teaspoonful on waxed paper until cool.

Timing: 1 min.

Temperature: Boil

Equipment: bowl

Notes

very good

As written

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Directions

Immediately add to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Drop by teaspoonful on waxed paper until cool.
Drop by teaspoonful on waxed paper.
Until cool

As written

Immediately add to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Drop by teaspoonful on waxed paper until cool. Drop by teaspoonful on waxed paper. Until cool

Old Binder typed card

Ingredients

3cups Quick Oatmeal
6 tablespoon coca
1 teaspoon vanilla
½cup cocoanut
½ cup chopped nuts
½ cup oleo
½ cup milk
2 cups sugar

Directions

Mix in bowl
Boil together 1 minute
Immediately add to dry ingredients and mix throughly.
Drop by teaspoon full on wax paper; let cool.

Timing: Boil together 1 minute

Equipment: bowl; wax paper

Notes

(ADD Peanut Butter

Arwilda’s changes

Added “(ADD Peanut Butter”

Peanut Butter No Bake: shortening, salt, one-minute boil

Blue Binder Peanut Butter No Bake sheet

Ingredients

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup shortening
4 Tablespoon cocoa
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups quick oatmeal.
1/2 cup Peanut Butter
1 tsp vanilla

Directions

Boil sugar, milk, shortening & cocoa for 1 minute.
Mix in oatmeal, peanut Butter, and Vanilla
Drop by spoonfulls onto Wax paper.

Timing: Boil sugar, milk, shortening & cocoa for 1 minute.

Temperature: Boil sugar, milk, shortening and cocoa.

Equipment: saucepan, bowl, stirring utensil, portioning spoon, and wax paper

Notes

Bowl; I mix; and additional partially readable blue mixing annotations.

As written

Bowl

A complete black-ink recipe plus blue annotations and deletions.

Unbaked Chocolate Cookies: 3/4 cup peanut butter and optional additions

Green Recipe Box Unbaked Chocolate Cookies card

Ingredients

2 cups white sugar
4 Tablespoon cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 stick of softened butter
½ cup milk
3/4 cups peanut butter
3 cups of Quick Oats
1 cup coconut; 1/2 cup ground or chopped walnuts

Directions

Boil 15 minutes.
Remove from fire.
Add 3/4 cups peanut butter!
3 cups of Quick Oats and mix well.
1 cups coconut or ½ cups ground or chopped walnuts, or both may be added if desired.
measure out or measured out
drop cookies on wax paper

Timing: 15 minutes

Temperature: Boil; Remove from fire

Equipment: wax paper

Compare the cards

Coconut, nuts, and peanut butter

Clear Tote coconut-only card: 1/2 cup coconut; no nuts or peanut butter are listed.
Clear Tote red-line two-card card: 1/2 cup coconut and 1/2 cup chopped nuts, optional.
Old Binder typed card: 1/2 cup cocoanut and 1/2 cup chopped nuts, plus a handwritten ADD Peanut Butter note with no amount.
Clear Tote edited two-sided card: The 1/2 cup coconut line is crossed out; 1/2 cup chopped nuts remains active.
Blue Binder complete card: 1/2 cup coconut and 1/2 cup chopped nuts, optional.

Portioning and yield annotations

Blue Binder complete card: Use a number 40 ice-cream scoop; make 2 1/2 dozen.
Clear Tote edited two-sided card: Makes 3 1/2 dozen; Double is retained as a separate scaling annotation.
Clear Tote coconut-only card: No yield or scoop size is stated.

Blue Binder base and double batches

Blue Binder crossed-Single base batch: 3 cups quick oatmeal, 6 tablespoons cocoa, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 cup coconut, 1/2 cup butter or oleo, 1/2 cup milk, and 2 cups sugar; number 40 scoop; Single is crossed out.
Blue Binder crossed-Double batch: 6 cups quick oatmeal, 12 tablespoons cocoa, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 1 cup coconut, 1 cup butter, 1 cup milk, and 4 cups sugar; number 70 scoop; Double is crossed out.

Fat, cocoa, vanilla, peanut butter, salt, and optional additions

Blue Binder complete card: For 3 cups oatmeal: 1/2 cup oleo, 6 tablespoons cocoa, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 cup coconut, optional 1/2 cup chopped nuts, 1/2 cup milk, and 2 cups sugar; no measured peanut butter.
Decorative Recipe Tin Boiled Cookies card: For 3 cups rolled oats: 1/2 cup butter, 3 tablespoons cocoa, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 cup peanut butter, 1/2 cup milk, and 2 cups sugar; no salt or coconut.
Green Recipe Box Unbaked Chocolate Cookies card: For 3 cups quick oats: 1 stick softened butter, 4 tablespoons cocoa, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 3/4 cup peanut butter, 1/2 cup milk, and 2 cups white sugar, with 1 cup coconut, 1/2 cup walnuts, or both optional.
Blue Binder Peanut Butter No Bake sheet: For 3 cups quick oatmeal: 1/2 cup shortening, 4 tablespoons cocoa, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 cup peanut butter, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup milk, and 2 cups sugar; no coconut or nuts.

Boiling duration

Blue Binder complete card: Boil oleo, milk, and sugar for 1 minute.
Decorative Recipe Tin Boiled Cookies card: Boil milk, cocoa, sugar, and butter for 3 minutes.
Green Recipe Box Unbaked Chocolate Cookies card: Boil 15 minutes, then remove from fire.
Blue Binder Peanut Butter No Bake sheet: Boil sugar, milk, shortening, and cocoa for 1 minute.

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