If you’ve been following since August of 2008*, you might remember me saying that the bruschetta pizza disappeared before I was able to get any. These pineapple cookies must have been even better, because I never even got the photo of them after coming out of the oven before they got snarfed up.
UPDATE: Obviously that’s the right picture now. So if this looks familiar, yes you saw it last week.
They looked just about like snickerdoodles, and tasted sort of like a sugar cookie, but with a softer texture. There was a hint of pineappleyness, but if you didn’t know what was in it you would just notice “a little something different”. Totally delicious, and drop-dead simple to make.
Ingredients
¼ cup butter
¾ cup sugar
1 egg
¼ cup drained crushed pineapple
1¼ cup sifted flour
pinch of salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon baking powder
Directions
This is another recipe from the Ohio State Grange Cookbook Eleventh Edition, 1949.
Cream together the butter and sugar.
I can go into ridiculous detail on what “creaming” is, but Jenni has already done it for me. So if you’re wondering, “What does ‘cream together’ mean?” then go read Jenni’s explanation of the creaming method.
Then add the rest of the ingredients: flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, pineapple and egg.
Beat until combined.
Scoop balls of dough onto an un-greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 375° until they’re golden brown.
And how long will that take? I don’t know, probably about 8 to 12 minutes. You know what the Grange cookbook said? “Bake in oven at 375° F.”
That’s it. Nothing about how long, nothing about how to tell when it’s done. But they made sure to tell you to do it “in oven”. Which is good, because you know, I was thinking about baking these in my fridge. I’m glad for the useful information. [sigh]
So anyway, sorry for no “after” shot today. I’ll come back and update this when we do them again and I can get a picture of the finished product. But these are so good — I mean seriously, ridiculously good — that I wanted to share them in time for the weekend. I know a lot of kids are finishing with school, and these would go great at an end-of-the-school-year picnic.
* And if you’ve been following since August of 2008 … thanks. (Now go buy the book already.)
Ingredients
- ¼ cup butter
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup drained crushed pineapple
- 1¼ cup sifted flour
- pinch of salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
Cream together butter and sugar, then mix in remaining ingredients.
Drop half-teaspoons of dough onto an un-greased baking sheet.
Bake at 375° until golden brown.
