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Our Service Unit Cookie Managers:
Dianne Lindner and Danielle Campbell

Joining Hands Girl Scout Leaders & Cookie Consultants!
It's time to begin preparing for the 2009 Cookie Sale!

Dianne Lindner and I (Danielle Campbell) will be your Service Unit Cookie Consultants. We plan to split the troops between us geographically as I live in Wyoming & Dianne lives near Hamilton Ave. & I-275.

At this time, each troop needs to do the following:

1.                   Identify a cookie sale coordinator.

2.                   Provide Dianne Lindner & myself with the name & contact information for your cookie sale coordinator. Your cookie sale coordinator's address will be used to determine the Service Unit Cookie Consultant with whom she will work.

      3.                  Let Dianne & I know how your cookie sale coordinator will be obtaining training for this year's

                  sale. Options are:

                  a.       For returning cookie sale coordinators, on-line training is an option. On-line training

                        will be available beginning 12/1/08. Upon completion of the on-line training, each cookie

                        coordinator must print out her certificate of completion and provide that to her Service Unit

                        Cookie Consultant in order to obtain her troop's cookie sale materials.

b.      For new cookie sale coordinators or returning cookie sale coordinators who prefer in-person training, a class will be held on Thursday, December 11th from 7:00 – 8:30 PM at the Springfield Township Senior Center (Room B in the basement). At the completion of the training, cookie coordinators will receive their troop's cookie sale materials.

In addition to completion of the training, each troop cookie sale coordinator will need to complete & sign a "Troop Product Sale Manager Agreement Form." This can be done when picking up your troop's cookie sale materials.

As a note to all leaders, only registered girls may participate in the Girl Scout Cookie Sale. Please get your registrations in ASAP in order to ensure all of your girls are eligible to sell.

Should you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact Dianne Lindner or me, email links are above.

Thanks,

Danielle Campbell

In July 1922, The American Girl magazine, published by Girl Scout national headquarters, featured an article by Florence E. Neil, a local director in Chicago, Illinois. Miss Neil provided a cookie recipe that was given to the council's 2,000 Girl Scouts. She estimated the approximate cost of ingredients for six- to seven-dozen cookies to be 26 to 36 cents. The cookies, she suggested, could be sold by troops for 25 or 30 cents per dozen.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Girl Scouts in different parts of the country continued to bake their own simple sugar cookies with their mothers. These cookies were packaged in wax paper bags, sealed with a sticker, and sold door to door for 25 to 35 cents per dozen.

AN EARLY GIRL SCOUT COOKIE® RECIPE

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar plus additional amount for topping (optional)
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder

Cream butter and the cup of sugar; add well-beaten eggs, then milk, vanilla, flour, salt, and baking powder. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Roll dough, cut into trefoil shapes, and sprinkle sugar on top, if desired. Bake in a quick oven (375°) for approximately 8 to 10 minutes or until the edges begin to brown. Makes six- to seven-dozen cookies.

last updated on 11/23/2008 08:33 PM

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