Read this one with the card open. Something on it is illegible, missing or ambiguous. It is transcribed exactly as written — nothing has been guessed or filled in — and every uncertainty is marked below.
Summary
Handwritten notebook-paper recipe for soft pumpkin drop cookies with a cooked brown-sugar icing, brace-bracket cross the ingredient groups to their method notes.
Key contents
- Cookie ingredients (as legible): "cup sugar(wt)" [quantity for sugar not legibly numbered — see open question], 1/2 shortening [unit not restated but grouped with the "cup" items above it], 1 cup pumpkin, 2 cups flour, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp vanilla, 1 tsp cinnamon
- Method note (bracketed to ingredients above): "Cream, then add dry ing[redients]. Drop by tsp onto sheet. 350°F, 10 to 12 min."
- Icing: 3 tablespoons brown sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, 3 tablespoons milk. Heat till butter melted; thicken with powdered sugar.
- Physical artifact: single sheet of blue-lined, three-hole-punched notebook paper (torn edge, hole reinforcement stickers), pencil handwriting, brace brackets grouping ingredients to instructions. No attribution or date.
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