A Presidential Cookie

I have a theory that in order to be First Lady you have to have a cookie recipe.

Martha Washington had a cookie recipe: jumbals. (Jumbals have fallen out of fashion but they're a little like a pretzel made out of biscuit dough.)

Mary Lincoln had a cookie recipe: gingerbread men, which is exactly what you would expect, if you were "writing a cookie recipe" for Mary Lincoln.

Jackie Kennedy didn't exactly have a cookie recipe, she had a peanut brittle recipe (and, also, quite a good recipe for creme brulee) but she was Jackie Kennedy and it was the '60s and if you wanted a cookie really badly, peanut brittle might do the trick.

Pat Nixon did not have a cookie recipe. She had a brownie recipe and further to my theory, he had to resign.

Nancy Reagan had a cookie recipe: coconut macaroons.

Laura Bush has a cookie recipe: Texas Governor's Mansion Cowboy Cookies and she also has a copyright on her cookie recipe so, we'll say no more about that, since, as we know, the Bush's don't really like to share.

Hillary Clinton has a famous chocolate chip cookie recipe which is now being published all over the web as Bill and Hillary Clinton's chocolate chip cookie recipe because Bill gets it. And Bill knows he has to have a cookie recipe.

Tipper Gore had a cookie recipe: ginger snaps. And we all know she really was First Lady for a minute there.

Which brings us to Cindy McCain. I know, easy shot, but Cindy McCain does not have a cookie recipe. She had a passion fruit mousse recipe which wasn't really hers, it was really someone else's (either Giada De Laurentiis or Rachael Ray, I'm not sure which one) and it has since been redacted.

And then, there's Michelle Obama who doesn't have a cookie recipe either. She has an apple cobbler recipe. But she's Michelle Obama and it's the new millennium and maybe apple cobbler is just what everyone had in mind.

Comments

[christiangulliksen]

Ah, but what's their favorite intoxicant? More telling, probably.

[dahpunkster]

hillary's cookie - white chocolate pecan shortbread cookies :)

[RobtBrock]

I am thinking that a good recipe would be from Alice B. Toklas' cookbook. A touch of the green...

[mlaiuppa]

Has anyone checked Hillary's recipe against the Tollhouse one on the chocolate chip package?

[DrJimmyMac]

If men do not vote for Clinton because she is a woman, they are called sexist. If whites do not vote for Obama because he is black, they are called racists. If blacks vote for Obama because he is black, why are they not called racists?

[thedirtman]

Because Pat Buchanan, Lou Dobbs and Joe Scarborough calls them elitists.

[JNo]

What is going on with the Ephrons these days? Amy, are you just getting tired? Can't you cop a couple of your sister's Ambiens? Is this post supposed to be meaningful in any way? Humorous? I don't get it.

[leopoldmozart]

I think Hillary's cookie recipe is the one she got duped into paying $2500 for at Neimann-Marcus. But that's another story...

[Kashathree]

In order to be First Lady, you have to have a cookie recipe? Hillary has a recipe? Hillary is a lady? I bet her cookies are made of beer and shots and maybe tobacco juice from her good ole boy friends.

[timinhi]

Why do you find it necessary to even say something like this? This whole site has become nothing more than an example of what is not civil discourse.

[knighthowl]

Perhaps the lack of civility is inspired, at least in part, by Hillary's lack of civility in the campaign. I voted for her in California, but now I wish I could have my vote back. Her discourse has become uncivil and damaging to the Democratic party. She has revealed herself to be the monster I did not believe she was.

[mheister]

I like apple cobbler. I like apple cobbler more than I like cookies.

[gevan]

The best I could do was to push little M&Ms into the Christmas tree sugar cookies. Better to let Pepperidge Farm make my cookies. So I will never be first lady now?

[Hawise]

I'm pretty sure that Bill can come up with a cookie recipe when the time comes. But cobbler? Seriously, cobbler? That is so 18th century. Couldn't she at least have updated it with apple/mango, or peach/cherry? Two school age children and no cookie recipe is a serious problem when school fundraisers roll up.

[wolfmobro]

Yep, Cindy is worth over $100 million, and forced McGoo to sign a pre-nuptial!!

She doesn't need a cookie receipe, she can buy the bakery.

US News and World Rumour says they DON'T live fancy, as they approach their zillion $$$ ranch in Sedona, AZ, home of some of the most expensive real estate in the world!!

Does anybody know how many houses they own?

The Budweiser Beer Baroness is tooooooo much!!

[indypete]

Michelle doesn't need a cookie recipe... Michelle IS a cookie! (Yeah, I know, very sexist of me but true!)

[fisharefreinds]

Are hillary's cookies attached to my computer?

[catchdis]

i can hardly wait for the day when the first lady (or gentleman) includes cannabis in their favorite brownie recipe.

[indypete]

President Toklas?

[Header]

Bill Clinton does have a cookie recipe - it's called "Blue Dress with Icing". Not everyone's cookie, though.

[SharonB]

You devil, you!

Good one!