Re: The cookie table

nun ya · ‎03-09-2010

The little tiny lady locks are my favorite. My sister makes tons of these at Christmas. I usually make myself sick eating them.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

My daughter cheats at cookies.

It started when she was just too busy to cook or do any extras and she had to bring cookies for some work event.

She bought a bag of Betty Crocker chocolate chip cookie mix, made those but added A LOT of her own chocolate chips.

At work the next day, everyone said they were so good and asked for the recipe, lol. She still gets asked to make more for people. When I'm at Target, I load up on Betty Crocker for her.

Allegheny · ‎03-19-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
My daughter cheats at cookies.

It started when she was just too busy to cook or do any extras and she had to bring cookies for some work event.

She bought a bag of Betty Crocker chocolate chip cookie mix, made those but added A LOT of her own chocolate chips.

At work the next day, everyone said they were so good and asked for the recipe, lol. She still gets asked to make more for people. When I'm at Target, I load up on Betty Crocker for her.

I use Betty Crocker cookie mixes also and they produce an excellent cookie. I purchase their chocolate chip and walnut mix whenever they are available and add a handful more walnuts.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Allegheny wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
My daughter cheats at cookies.

It started when she was just too busy to cook or do any extras and she had to bring cookies for some work event.

She bought a bag of Betty Crocker chocolate chip cookie mix, made those but added A LOT of her own chocolate chips.

At work the next day, everyone said they were so good and asked for the recipe, lol. She still gets asked to make more for people. When I'm at Target, I load up on Betty Crocker for her.

I use Betty Crocker cookie mixes also and they produce an excellent cookie. I purchase their chocolate chip and walnut mix whenever they are available and add a handful more walnuts.

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@Allegheny

They are good, I agree

I love peanut butter cookies. She bought one bakery fancy one for me recently and it was dry and tasted as if the pastry chef forgot the peanut butter. So DD made some for me that were a BCrocker mix and they were delicious.

HappilyEverAfter · ‎03-02-2016

Is the cookie table something that is currently done or is this a generational custom from decades ago? I have been to dozens of Italian weddings and never saw a cookie table. My mother was born in Italy and we have attended many family weddings there and not one cookie table in sight! I believe this is an Italian-American custom. Emphasis on American. Sounds yummy.

HappilyEverAfter · ‎03-02-2016

@pateacher wrote:
My SIL has a friend who is first-generation American. Her relatives from Italy had never heard of the "cookie table" until they visited in the US.
They bought their wedding cookies from a bakery.

Never heard of it either.

justmyopinion · ‎11-23-2015

It's not an "Italian" thing and It didn't originate in Italy.

Acookie table is a wedding tradition said to originate in Southwestern Pennsylvania, where in place of or in addition to a wedding cake, a large table with different cookies is presented to guests at the wedding reception.[1] Cookies are generally prepared by family members in advance of the reception. It is typically a Pittsburgh tradition.[2]

Research has shown that the cookie table appears to have stronger ethnic or religious ties, although in some regions of the United States it is becoming more of a regional practice, primarily East Coast and industrial centers. Cookie tables are included in primarily Italian orCatholic wedding receptions. Other groups that also have cookie tables or cookie platters are the Greeks, Slovaks, Serbian Orthodox, Austrian/Hungarian, and Scandinavians. The inclusion of a cookie table is more widely known where those of Italian ancestry settled, and also in some cases, of the other groups mentioned above. Where a settlement did not consist of sizable numbers of Italian or Eastern European groups, the number of those who were familiar with cookie tables decreased. Cookie tables were better known in the east than in the mid-west, south, southwest or west.[3]

Research by the Arms Family Museum of Local History in Youngstown, Ohio discovered the dominant areas for cookie tables were northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Cookie tables were also well known in West Virginia, Virginia, New York, New Jersey and Delaware. States where they were unknown or not present included Washington, California, Texas and Nevada.[4]

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

"No one knows exactly how or when this tradition started, or even who started it. Cookie tables began appearing at weddings throughout the Pittsburgh area and some parts of eastern Ohio sometime between the turn of the century and the Great Depression. Some speculate that people began bringing cookies to weddings in order to defray wedding expenses to the couples’ families during hard times.

Large groups of immigrants settled in the region at this time, and many credit the tradition to the Italians. However, Greek and Eastern European families in the area also include the cookie table as an essential part of the wedding feast."

Additional information and photos:

http://www.zankyou.us/p/cookie-tables-regional-wedding-tradition

THAT'S A LOT OF COOKIES AT THAT ONE TABLE!