Friday, April 5, 2013

Cookie Trivia

Americans consume over 2 billion cookies a year, or 300 cookies for each person annually.

The official state cookie of Massachusetts is the chocolate chip cookie, invented in 1930 at the Toll House Restaurant. (Pennsylvania is also considering the chocolate chip cookie as their official cookie.)

Eel Cookies: Unagai Pie, a speciality of Hamamatsu, Japan are cookies made with fresh butter with crushed eel bones, eel extract o.r garlic mixed in (yech).

Nabisco produced 16 billion Oreo cookies in 1995 at it's factory in Chicago, IL.

My next books is once again, one of those spiral books, not sold on Amazon, but a wonderful book filled with hundreds of recipes from St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center Auxiliary of Madison, WI, published in 1981.  It's called Come Share With Us.  It sells for $7.99 and if you are interested in buying this book, please email me at crazyvalbrown@yahoo.com.

Of course, I still have over 1400 books on my Amazon storefront-so don't forget to look at those.  www.amazon.com/stores/oneofakindcookbooks.

Also, I will be on a two-week cruise, starting April 14th and I will still be publishing my blogs, but they may not be on Facebook, until after I get back (they need phone verification each time on Facebook-international charges are too much for me).  So sign up on my blog www.cookbookval.blogspot.com, so you don't miss anything!

This cookie recipe seemed interesting.  I haven't made it yet, but I know that it would work-sometimes you can just tell.
Skillet Cookies

Mix together: 2 eggs, beaten, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup chopped dates.
Melt in skillet 2 tbsp butter and date mixture.  Cook over low heat 10-15 minutes, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat and add the following:
2 cups rice krispies, 1 cup chopped nuts, 1 tsp vanilla.  Mix well and drop by tsp into bowl of coconut and form into small balls.  Cool and serve.

Happy Cooking! 

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