White Butter Cookies
Arwilda kept four different recipes with this title.
Aunt Myra's edited-milk 325-degree formula
Decorative Recipe Tin Aunt Myra card
From Aunt Myra's.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in the milk
- 3 eggs
- Flour to roll thin - 2 cups - 3 cu
- 1 teaspoon - vanilla or nutmeg
Directions
- roll out thin;
- Bake in 325 degree oven about 8 or 10 minutes
Timing: about 8 or 10 minutes
Temperature: 325 degree
As written
Aunt Myra's
Arwilda’s changes
- Changed “1 cup milk” to “3/4 cup milk”
Butter and optional-seasoning 425-degree formula
Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box card
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon soda
- 1 cup butter
- 1/4 [ditto: cup] milk
- flour to roll thin
- Nutmeg or any seasoning may be used.
Directions
- flour to roll thin; Bake in oven (425°) for about 12 to 15 min.
Timing: about 12 to 15 min.
Temperature: (425°)
Equipment: measuring cups and spoon; mixing bowl and utensil; rolling pin; cookie cutter; baking sheet; oven
Notes
- Nutmeg or any seasoning may be used.
Grandma Kellogg 375-degree formula
Clear Tote card attributed to Grandma Kellogg
From Grandma Kellogg.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 teasp. soda, dissolved in the milk
- 3 eggs
- flour to roll thin (about 3 cups or more)
- 1 teasp. vanilla or nutmeg
Directions
- roll out thin, Cut with Cookie cutter.
- Bake in 375 degrees oven about 8 or 10 minutes.
Timing: about 8 or 10 minutes
Temperature: 375 degrees
Equipment: mixing vessel and utensil, rolling surface and rolling pin, cookie cutter, baking sheet, oven, and cooling surface
Lowercase-title complete 375-degree formula
Decorative Recipe Tin two-page lowercase-title card
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup shortening
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in the milk
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Flour to roll plain
Directions
- Cream sugar + shortening. Add the eggs one at a time, add milk and soda, vanilla or nutmeg.
- add flour roll and 1/4 thick cut with cookie cutter.
- Bake on cookie sheet. ungreased in 375° oven about 10-15 min.
Timing: about 10-15 min.
Temperature: soda dissolved in milk; sugar and shortening creamed; 1/4 thick; 375° oven
Equipment: mixing bowl and utensil; rolling pin; cookie cutter; ungreased cookie sheet; oven
Compare the cards
Fat, milk, salt, flour, and flavoring
- Decorative Recipe Tin Aunt Myra card
- Shortening, corrected three-quarter cup milk, no listed salt, clipped 2 cups to 3 cu flour guidance, and one teaspoon vanilla or nutmeg.
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box card
- Butter, one-quarter cup milk, no listed salt, unquantified flour to roll thin, and optional nutmeg or any seasoning.
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-page lowercase-title card
- Shortening, one-quarter cup milk, one-half teaspoon salt, flour to roll plain, and one teaspoon vanilla or nutmeg.
- Clear Tote card attributed to Grandma Kellogg
- Shortening, one-quarter cup milk, no listed salt, about three cups or more flour, and one teaspoon vanilla or nutmeg.
Oven setting and bake duration
- Decorative Recipe Tin Aunt Myra card
- 325 degrees for about 8 or 10 minutes.
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box card
- 425 degrees for about 12 to 15 minutes.
- Decorative Recipe Tin two-page lowercase-title card
- 375 degrees for about 10 to 15 minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Clear Tote card attributed to Grandma Kellogg
- 375 degrees for about 8 or 10 minutes.
Family attribution
- Decorative Recipe Tin Aunt Myra card
- Aunt Myra's.
- Clear Tote card attributed to Grandma Kellogg
- Grandma Kellogg.
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