Girl Scouts Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low |
I hope you enjoy the photos, memories and Girl Scout cookie recipes which follow. Happy anniversary to all the Girl Scouts, past and present, and happy Wordless Wednesday too.
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Flickr/goincase Today Girl Scouts have become synonimous with cookies |
flickr/gseiwiarchives Chris Wilson, 11, sold 20 cartons of cookies to Vietnam War soldiers |
flickr/theatrical03 Original Girl Scout Cookie Recipe (See also recipe text below photos) |
flickr/gseiwiarchives 1960 article and recipe for a new dessert, the Minted Brownie Pie (See also recipe text below photos) |
flickr/gseiwiarchives Facsimile of the 1913 Handbook for Girl Scouts tells girls how they can help their country. |
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flickr/Kayak49 Girl Scout Cookies! |
Original Girl Scout Cookies
(This large quantity recipe is great for cookie exchanges if you have access to an industrial size mixer, otherwise either mix in batches or cut down the recipe.)
3 pounds flour (12 cups)
1 3/4 pounds butter (3 1/2 cups)
1 3/4 pounds sugar (3 1/2 cups)
3 eggs
1/4 pound grated almonds
1 teaspoon vanilla
Grated rind of one lemon
1 teaspoon ammonium carbonate dissolved in a little rose water (1 ounce)
Cream butter and sugar. Add remaining ingredients. Chill.
Roll out and cut with cookie cutters.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.
Girl Scout Cookies Minted Brownie Pie Recipe
14 chocolate mint cookies (1 1/2 box in 1960)
3 egg whites (or 1 envelope meringue mix)
dash of salt
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup chopped nut meats
sweetened whipped cream (1/2 to 1 cup cream)
Chill cookies in refrigerator a few minutes. Break, cut or roll between folds of waxed paper to even crumbs. Beat egg whites and salt together until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in sugar, beating until still peaks form. Fold in cookie crumbs, nut meats and vanilla and spread in buttered 9-inch pie plate. Bake in slow oven, 325 degrees, for 35 minutes. Cool thoroughly. Serve with sweetened whipped cream on each wedge and garnish with curls of shaved unsweetened chocolate.
Sounds like a yummy recipe. I was a girl scout a very long time ago and I love seldling the cookies. Oh and eating them too.
ReplyDeleteI have never had a girl scout cookie, so shall have to make them!
ReplyDeletethe Minted Brownie Pie recipe sounds DELISH!
ReplyDeletemy auntie makes something similar with oreo cookies but i'm a huge fan of the mint girl scout cookies, so i will for sure have to try this one.
@pippad (comment above) you have NEVER had a girl scout cookie? you poor door. for sure try to make them yourself. they are a real treat.
sounds yummy and thanks for sharing your recipe! btw, i love that girl scout 100th anniversary pin...visiting you thru Wordless Wednesday! :) have a great day!
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