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Skriven 2013-03-02 08:05:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 NB> Not mine either...  When I have had Chips Ahoy, there's something else
 NB> in them that repeats distastefully for me, coconut, maybe...

Possibly coconut - I recall something that made the flavor
distinctive. I didn't mind that, just the texture and the
inferior chocolate.

 NB> Growing up, Daddy made oatmeal cookies, usually with raisins,
 NB> sometimes with candied fruit (like for Christmas)... otherwise we had
 NB> what he bought for cheap at the store (and Chips Ahoy and their ilk
 NB> were more expensive than he was paying for, anyway), generic sandwich
 NB> cookies, sugar wafers, ginger snaps...  don't remember what-all else...

I kind of liked generic sugar wafers, which, when they were
fresh, were just as good as the name brands. One kind of
cookie that I remember liking was the wafery ones molded
into rectangles with peanut goo inside. They made a comeback
a few years ago (reported here) but seemed not as good. As
I can remember quite clearly the taste and texture of the
originals, it's probably not a case of nostalgia talking.

 ML> United Airlines used to do a good chocolate chip cookie, if
 ML> you like them made with margarine, but I guess the costs must
 ML> have increased to the point that now they are serving white
 ML> chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies, not as nice but probably
 ML> saving the company a couple cents per passenger.
 NB> Or maybe they think they are catering to the "eat healthy" people...

But they're sweeter than ever before, and white chocolate
is not exactly a nutritional bonanza.

 NB>> How sad.  All my sources for GS cookies have pretty well dried up, no
 NB>> little girls coming knocking on the door any more either, and I
 NB>> haven't really tried to make the effort to actually track them down... 
 ML> They're okay - the texture isn't as good, the flavor isn't
 ML> as good. I'll check to see who makes them these days - there
 ML> used to be regional manufacturers and probably regional
 ML> differences, but these thin mints are not the stuff of legend,
 ML> shall we say.
 NB> Probably cutting corners, too... whoever is making them now...
 
They were always contracted out (the ones here were usually
from Famous Foods of Virginia).

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

      Title: Midnight Mint Pie
 Categories: Pies, Desserts
      Yield: 6 servings

  1 1/4 c  Crushed thin mint cookies
    1/4 c  Melted butter or margarine
      1 c  Butter                    
      2 c  Sifted powdered sugar
      4 oz Melted, unsweetened chocolate
      4    Eggs
      1 ts Peppermint extract

  Preheat oven to 350F. Blend cookie crumbs with butter and press into
  bottom and sides of a 9" pie pan. Bake 5 to 7 min and cool thoroughly.
  Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add chocolate,eggs and
  peppermint extract, beating until well combined. Mound filling into
  the baked pie shell. Freeze until firm. Source unknown

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