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Article: SWEET AND SIMPLE BASIC ALL-AMERICAN COOKIES MAKE A MOST SATISFYING GIFT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2001
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The cookies this year will be American, of course. We even
considered wrapping them in paper flags. Cookies are the nation's
favorite sweets, the confection everyone loves to make, which is why
they seemed so obvious. New England, home of the chocolate chip
cookie, offers other great recipes, including batters made with
spices and molasses, which turn out cookies that are fragrant and
inviting; chewy, candylike old-fashioned raisin oatmeal cookies; and
peanut butter cookies, the next best thing to eating peanut butter
right out of the jar. All of these are simply made - not rolled
out or stamped but rather dropped onto the baking sheet without
further fuss or rolled in the palms, ...