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CPS butter cookies: You can still find the classics years after they disappeared
Chicago Tribune ^ | 5 December 2017 | Amy Bizzarri

Posted on 12/05/2017 5:06:11 PM PST by mairdie

Rich, buttery and just 5 cents each, Chicago Public Schools' iconic butter cookies made lunchtime all the merrier from the 1960s and through the ’80s. These classic shortbread cookies, pressed with three fingers for good measure and baked to toasty perfection, once graced cafeteria trays across the city. ...

Made from scratch, with lots of butter and lots of sugar, they're not on the menu anymore, since their fat and sugar content wouldn't meet today's nutrition standards.

"But we still make them every once in a while, to share among the cafeteria staff," Streak says.

Their origins are murky, and Chicago Public Schools has no record of where or when the cookies made their debut, but according to alumni lore, they popped up in the 1960s at both elementary and high schools throughout Chicago. The original recipe calls for just four ingredients — butter, sugar, vanilla extract and flour — but at some point, a peanut butter version appeared on the cafeteria scene.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: chicago; cookies; peanutbutter; publicschool
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To: mairdie

They’re my dreams of childhood. Didn’t have a great childhood, but that rancid after taste is still one of my favorites. Gotta do a tin every Christmas.


21 posted on 12/06/2017 12:05:52 PM PST by discostu (let's do another bad one, cause I like it when the blood drains from Dave's face.)
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To: GailA

Yep, same here. I have issues with my stomach and I don’t eat after 4-5 o’clock. Sometimes maybe 10 bites but more than that & it bites back. So I’m like you, I cook 2-3 meals then we eat that the rest of the week. Except for Saturday, that’s scrambled eggs & fried potatoes night. He does white, I get sweet potatoes.


22 posted on 12/06/2017 12:06:42 PM PST by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: GailA

“S. On a Shingle.”

“SOS” = creamed chipped beef on toast. Mom used to make it when I was little. I had to eat in another room because I gagged just looking at it.


23 posted on 12/06/2017 12:10:05 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Free men are not equal, and Equal men are not free".)
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