What’s Cooking Wednesday: Holiday Sugar Spike Have you visited
our exhibit “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” Don’t wait! The exhibit
closes on January 3, 2012. Are you in a sugar coma yet? If not,
there’s still time to make some sweet desserts straight from the
records of the National Archives. These favorite cookie recipes
(below) come from the 1966 Forest Service Fire Lookout Cookbook,
part of the holdings of the National Archives at Seattle. They
look pretty delicious—let us know if you try any of them! Lucky
for you, we are not sharing the Forest Service’s recipe for
peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches topped with grated
carrot. These aren’t the only holiday-ready recipes in the
National Archives. Americans love their sweets and we’ve got
lots of dessert recipes. Even during hard times, when sugar was
rationed to six tablespoons per day, Americans found ways to
cook something sweet. In 1918, the U.S. Food Administration
recommended using “molasses, corn syrup, maple syrup, glucose,
maple sugar, corn sugar,