When Ruth Wakefield ran out of Baker’s chocolate to make her chocolate cookies and decided to use pieces of a chocolate bar to finish the task, she never thought it would result in the creation of America’s favorite cookie. But it did, and the rest, so they say, is history. Ruth Graves Wakefield graduated in […]
Whatcha Need: 1/2 cup butter 1/3 cup sugar 1 egg 3/4 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon vanilla About 18 whole nuts Whatcha Do: Preheat oven to 400 F; grease a cookie sheet. Cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg, then beat in flour, then add vanilla. Drop by spoonfuls on to cookie sheet, and top each […]
"Here’s a new cookie that everybody loves because it is so delicious, so different and so easy to make. With each crisp bite you taste a delicious bit of Nestle’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate and a crunch of rich walnut meat. A perfect combination. Every one will be surprised and delighted to find that the chocolate does […]
Recipe makes about 60 cookies Whatcha Need: 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 3/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 large eggs 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels 1 cup chopped nuts […]
Dairy Queen got its start in 1938 in an ice cream store in Kankakee, Illinois owned by Sherb Noble.
One morning on a recent road trip, I stopped at the local diner in a small Mississippi town. While sitting at the counter having breakfast, I overheard several guys discussing the proper way to season their grits. One gentleman remarked that he and his fellow Arkansans favored sugar while a couple of the local boys […]
The major difference in a chess pie from other custard pies is most chess pie recipes call for a small amount of cornmeal or flour.
