Sybil Bruncheon’s “What’s Cookin’”… DoubleTree Hotels released their secret “Welcome Cookie” recipe:

DoubleTree Chocolate Cookie Recipe (Makes 26 cookies)

Ingredients: ½ pound butter, softened (2 sticks)

                         ¾ cup + 1 tablespoon granulated sugar

                         ¾ cup packed light brown sugar

                          2 large eggs

                          1¼ teaspoons vanilla extract

                          ¼ teaspoon fresh lemon juice

                          2¼ cups flour

                          ½ cup rolled oats

                          1 teaspoon baking soda

                          1 teaspoon salt

                          Pinch of cinnamon

Pinch of nutmeg (optional)

                          2-2/3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

                          1¾ cups chopped walnuts

Directions:    Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. 

                     Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer on medium speed for about 2 minutes.  

                      Add eggs, vanilla, and lemon juice, blending with mixer on low speed for 30 seconds, then medium speed for about 2 minutes, or until light and fluffy, scraping down bowl.

                      With mixer on low speed, add flour, oats, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Blend for about 45 seconds. Don’t overmix.  

                      Remove bowl from mixer and stir in chocolate chips and walnuts. 

                      Portion dough with a scoop (about 3 tablespoons) onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, about 2 inches apart.     

                      Bake for 20 to 23 minutes, or until edges are golden brown and center is still soft.                      

                      Remove from oven and cool on baking sheet for about 1 hour. ENJOY!!!!

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Sybil Bruncheon’s “Hysterical Histories”... January 1st, 1920...

...ah, yes!! The famous "Quintzy Qake Quintuplets" from Vaudeville!! Qiki, Qatrina, Qinnie, Quooku, and Qizzy. They always dressed up in dessert costumes for their song and dance revues and were billed as "America's Sweetest Little Qupcakes"...

They headlined for the Orpheum circuit, and toured from the time they were 5 years old... Sadly, their luck began to suddenly change after their New Year’s Eve show! At 22 years of age, Qiki collapsed onstage! She had contracted diabetes from constantly snacking on her own buttons... Qinnie ended up a bulimic, secretly gorging on frosting and then vomiting onstage that night in a stream of bright blue much to the horror of the audience…

… Over the next months, two of the others went from a petite size 2 to size 2X... Qizzy literally started looking like a dancing wedding cake, and Qatrina was later described in the press as "The Hindenburg if it was made out of Butter Cream!"...

Quooku was the only sister who seemed to have left her show business career and the family tragedies and found happiness… she moved with a perfectly nice man to Quebec, Canada. It wasn’t until she turned 50 that local police realized she was the famous “pastry poisoner” who had been murdering traveling salesmen in her charming little Quooku’s Qu-afé!!!! She was the last Canadian woman to be sentenced to death… But she died consuming her last meal the night before. She choked on a stale “prison-issue” éclair…

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