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Article: Whip Up Top-Secret Sweets in Your Kitchen
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 22, 1993
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I love Mrs. Fields' chocolate-chip cookies, so when I thought I
had the authentic recipe for those gooey delights, I was anxious to
whip up a batch of the best cookies on earth.
Whoever put the recipe to paper claimed it came straight from
Mrs. Fields' kitchen, so I figured it had to be great. But it didn't
take long - 10 minutes in a 375-degree oven - to discover I'd been
had. I was just one of many thousands of people who had been
suckered into believing that a multimillion-dollar company had sold
its most valuable secret formula.
The untrue story behind it was that a woman had called the Mrs.
Fields Co. to get the recipe and was told it would cost her $2.50,