I have been able to decode the rest of the recipe but the highlighted ingredient has me stumped. I’m not the best at baking so I’m not sure what it could be. The streusel is on the back, if that information is of any use 🫣

by neonaudacity

38 Comments

  1. nucleustractus

    Baking powder for sure, that’s how i abbreviate it!

  2. ApprehensiveTower264

    It’s absolutely baking powder – that’s a cursive P.

  3. csdtraitor

    It is a capital B and a P for Baking Powder. Just looks a little funky because the f in flour above dragged onto their line, splitting up the B and the P.

  4. daphydoods

    Why did my brain immediately say “beanut putter?”

  5. FreeTheDimple

    It’s 2 Tsp (teaspoons) Baking Power. The F above it is dripping down into that line.

  6. neonaudacity

    Thank you all for the help! I’m on mobile and can’t edit but we’ve cracked the code on by gma-in-laws baking powder abbreviation.

  7. wastedhalfmylife

    I agree that it is baking powder. But if you’re still willing, I’d love to see the back of the card!

  8. KTKittentoes

    Definitely Baking Powder. My grandma would have written just like this.

  9. RJKimbell00

    “B P” = Baking Powder

    What’s in between is the cursive down stroke of the lower case “f”.

  10. Roonil_Wazlib97

    My grandmother had those same recipe cards! Now some of my dearest treasures!

  11. RideWithMeTomorrow

    British Petroleum! I mean, baking powder.

  12. BebeRegal

    Baking powder – crumb cake & coffee cake always take baking powder 💖

  13. bacchus8408

    Did anyone else read that recipe as calling for 6 lbs of shortening? 

  14. Lazuli2420

    I think everyone’s grandmother had the exact same handwriting

  15. TurduckenEverest

    I thought for one brief terrifying second that the second ingredient was 6 lbs. shortening.

  16. Infamous-Loquat5610

    2 teaspoons of baking powder. I was a pastry chef and my notebook of chicken scratch recipes reference BP and BS for baking soda ☺️

  17. Technical_Block_1922

    It’s crazy to me how the handwriting from that generation looks identical. I have recipe cards from my grandmother that I could put next to that and you’d think it was the same person.