I need help trying to figure out what this word is on my Grammie’s recipe. If you can figure it out please let me know. Recipe is pineapple squares. This is from 1953 the year she was married.
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29 Comments
cranbeery
I think it’s “butter (the) size (of an) egg.” I would do like 3-4 tablespoons based on some googling. I’ve seen it in recipes before.
metztlion
Single?
TheFilthyDIL
It would be helpful to see the words on either side of the mystery word. As it is they’re covered up. Context is very important.
amkdragonfly2513
Single egg?
Popular-Drummer-7989
Cocoanut butter size egg.
Use a tablespoon sideways into the butter and create a roll that size. Tablespoon is about the size of a large egg
forgeblast
I might have a similar recipe I’ll look. It’s also called pineapple squares
Cute_Doughnut_7739
Single egg but they abbreviated egg?
SubstantialPressure3
I think it’s “butter, sug” as in she didn’t write the entire word “sugar”.
I read the whole recipe a couple times, and the way that’s written is exactly the way she wrote “sugar” early in the recipe.
Looks like sing from here. Maybe an abbreviation of single idk
rachstate
Butter the size of an egg. Eggs are larger now, so use a chunk of butter slightly smaller than your standard large egg.
gwhite81218
Undoubtedly it’s meant to be, “butter the size of an egg,” an old way of describing volume.
Displaced_in_Space
It looks to me like “single egg” and the “L” was lazily dropped when jotting. I say that because I drop “i” and some other “slim” letters when writing fast, so this doesn’t seem odd to me.
liamsmom58
These conversations are great. I’ve learned to be specific (and use neat wry) in the recipes I write down in case my kids make them after I’m gone. Thanks!
gimmethelulz
So you make a shortbread sort of crust, spread the pineapple, then pour the butter/sugar mixture over the pineapple? I imagine you should drain the pineapple first? I’m so intrigued by this recipe!
Cute-Consequence-184
Size
OtherThumbs
Butter size egg (butter the size of an egg)
They also used to talk about butter the size of a walnut, a knob of butter as big as a knuckle, etc. Always something easy for a housewife to compare it to.
thecattylady
I agree that it’s butter the size of an egg. I have an old Czech cookbook and that measurement is used in a lot of the recipes.
Spiritual_Cause3032
Butter the size of an egg is about 1/4 cup. Per my dear grandmother who lived to be 96 and passed in 1987.
TheCrystalGarden
Egg size chunk of butter melted.
UtterEast
**Pineapple Squares** (transcription with clarifying additions but also notes where I realized I’m also confused) [crust:] 1 cup flour 1/2 cup butter *[softened? or cold and cut in? I’m not sure if it’s meant to be biscuit-y or cracker-y]* 1 tsp baking powder 1 egg mix, press into 9×9 pan, then spread 1 cup *[drained? or does the crust need the juice/syrup?]* crushed pineapple [on top of crust] [topping:] to 1 egg well beaten add 1/2 cup sugar, 2 cups shredded coconut, and [an amount of butter the size of an egg that has been melted] [let the melted butter cool down if needed so that it doesn’t scramble your beaten egg –ed], then pour/spread on top of pineapple layer bake in a slow oven [300–325 °F (149–163 °C)] for 30 to 40 min
I often copy and paste recipes into a word processor and then intermingle the ingredients and instructions like this, or at least rearrange the ingredient list by the order I’m going to work with them per the instructions haha
ryandamartini
Coconut butter size egg is what it says. So probably a good scoop with a wide tablespoon of
AssociationShort2353
If only I was taught to read scribbles
Abbiethedog
My wife’s grandmother was verbally transcribing a recipe to her and gave the butter measurement as “about the size of a hen’s egg” so, I’d go with that.
SunESpirit
It’s definitely “butter the size of an egg.” That’s how my Texas born/Oklahoma raised Momma would describe it.
VLA_58
We always called that a ‘quenelle’, butter, crisco, or lard scooped with the side of a soup spoon until it was basically the shape and size of an egg. Roughly 3 TBSP.
kaoest
Someone make this and report back. I love pineapple, but don’t have time to bake at the moment
comfortably_bananas
February first fell on a Sunday this year too, if you needed an excuse/sign from the universe for making these.
indiana-floridian
Butter the size of an egg
That recipe sounds SO good. I’m going to see if i have any coconut.
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I think it’s “butter (the) size (of an) egg.” I would do like 3-4 tablespoons based on some googling. I’ve seen it in recipes before.
Single?
It would be helpful to see the words on either side of the mystery word. As it is they’re covered up. Context is very important.
Single egg?
Cocoanut butter size egg.
Use a tablespoon sideways into the butter and create a roll that size. Tablespoon is about the size of a large egg
I might have a similar recipe I’ll look. It’s also called pineapple squares
Single egg but they abbreviated egg?
I think it’s “butter, sug” as in she didn’t write the entire word “sugar”.
I read the whole recipe a couple times, and the way that’s written is exactly the way she wrote “sugar” early in the recipe.
Wow. I had my doubts, but…
https://butterthesizeofanegg.com/butter-the-size-of-an-egg/
Looks like sing from here. Maybe an abbreviation of single idk
Butter the size of an egg. Eggs are larger now, so use a chunk of butter slightly smaller than your standard large egg.
Undoubtedly it’s meant to be, “butter the size of an egg,” an old way of describing volume.
It looks to me like “single egg” and the “L” was lazily dropped when jotting. I say that because I drop “i” and some other “slim” letters when writing fast, so this doesn’t seem odd to me.
These conversations are great. I’ve learned to be specific (and use neat wry) in the recipes I write down in case my kids make them after I’m gone. Thanks!
So you make a shortbread sort of crust, spread the pineapple, then pour the butter/sugar mixture over the pineapple? I imagine you should drain the pineapple first? I’m so intrigued by this recipe!
Size
Butter size egg (butter the size of an egg)
They also used to talk about butter the size of a walnut, a knob of butter as big as a knuckle, etc. Always something easy for a housewife to compare it to.
I agree that it’s butter the size of an egg. I have an old Czech cookbook and that measurement is used in a lot of the recipes.
Butter the size of an egg is about 1/4 cup. Per my dear grandmother who lived to be 96 and passed in 1987.
Egg size chunk of butter melted.
**Pineapple Squares** (transcription with clarifying additions but also notes where I realized I’m also confused)
[crust:]
1 cup flour
1/2 cup butter *[softened? or cold and cut in? I’m not sure if it’s meant to be biscuit-y or cracker-y]*
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
mix, press into 9×9 pan, then spread 1 cup *[drained? or does the crust need the juice/syrup?]* crushed pineapple [on top of crust]
[topping:]
to 1 egg well beaten add 1/2 cup sugar, 2 cups shredded coconut, and [an amount of butter the size of an egg that has been melted] [let the melted butter cool down if needed so that it doesn’t scramble your beaten egg –ed], then pour/spread on top of pineapple layer
bake in a slow oven [300–325 °F (149–163 °C)] for 30 to 40 min
I often copy and paste recipes into a word processor and then intermingle the ingredients and instructions like this, or at least rearrange the ingredient list by the order I’m going to work with them per the instructions haha
Coconut butter size egg is what it says. So probably a good scoop with a wide tablespoon of
If only I was taught to read scribbles
My wife’s grandmother was verbally transcribing a recipe to her and gave the butter measurement as “about the size of a hen’s egg” so, I’d go with that.
It’s definitely “butter the size of an egg.” That’s how my Texas born/Oklahoma raised Momma would describe it.
We always called that a ‘quenelle’, butter, crisco, or lard scooped with the side of a soup spoon until it was basically the shape and size of an egg. Roughly 3 TBSP.
Someone make this and report back. I love pineapple, but don’t have time to bake at the moment
February first fell on a Sunday this year too, if you needed an excuse/sign from the universe for making these.
Butter the size of an egg
That recipe sounds SO good. I’m going to see if i have any coconut.