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« Joyce makes pies | Main | Just desserts » Friday, October 13, 2006The cookie phenomenon
A few days ago on boston.com, someone who worked there posted a recipe for pumpkin chocolate-chip cookies and it's been emailed many times since then. The recipe is from a 2004 Food section. I went into the Boston Globe archives. The recipe title is "My mother's pumpkin chocolate-chip cookies" and it comes from "Too Busy To Cook?" (Volume Two). It came from Christine Merlo, who is a Globe contributor. She wrote up the cookies for the Food section because her mother invented this combination of canned pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and semisweet chips many years ago. Here's how Christine explained it in her article: "One fall about 30 years ago, my mother made up this recipe to send a taste of New England to my sister, who was away at college in Pennsylvania. A decade later, my sister submitted the recipe to Bon Appetit, which published it, and then in 1988 published it again in their 'Too Busy To Cook?' volume." She continued: "Everyone in my family still makes the cookies at this time of year, and those familiar scents bring back all kinds of memories." Christine's mother's chocolate-chip cookies will be in many more cookie jars after this weekend. Posted by Sheryl Julian at 05:45 PM
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