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A Tasty Tradition

These beloved chocolate cookies have been in Bake from Scratch reader Lynn Weisz’s family for three generations and counting. While no one knows where the name of these cookies came from, they have inspired the start of a beloved tradition. Lynn’s great-aunt Liz Murray was the source of these Go-to-School Cookies.

Lynn tells us that Liz had a go-to cookbook in the margins of which she scribbled

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