By adding sugar and eggs (later replaced with gelatin) to the goo from the mallow plant, he created small spherical candies named for the plant they originally came from. Sticky sweet marshmallows like we know today were popularized by a French confectioner. It was used as medicine and as food all the way back in ancient Egypt and Greece. Marshmallows originally come from the gooey substance produced by the mallow plant. What I can say with assurance is that each integral ingredient has a rich history of its own. Try as we might, the internet can’t seem to come to a common consensus on the exact birth of the s’more and at who’s hands the recipe was conceived. They called these convenient new dishes s’mores and kabobs. They indulged in innovative “Camp Andreee Dishes” cooked over the campfire. The article goes on to cover a group of girl scouts and troop leaders who met at Camp Andree, a summer camp in northern New York. While it’s less widely documented than the appearance of s’mores in the girl scout's yearly guidebook, a 1925 edition of a newspaper called The Norwalk Hour featured s’mores in an article titled Patrol Leaders Have Outing: Fall Plans Discussed And "Camp Andree Dishes" Introduced. What can we confirm about the history of the world’s tastiest portable campfire dessert? A hoax that spread like wildfire to the point that Loretta Scott Crew’s Wikipedia page has since been removed altogether to try and contain this “fake news” from embedding itself in history. Our marshmallow-maven may truly be little more than an internet hoax like Santa or the Tooth Fairy. In fact, no one can seem to find any record or proof that Ms. While there is a recipe for “some mores” (toasted marshmallows and Hershey chocolate sandwiched between graham crackers, just as we know today) listed in the 1927 edition of Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts, there’s no record of Loretta Scott Crew authoring it. If you dig deep enough into the archives, it appears that Loretta Scott Crew never existed. I’ll spare you the details and countless differing opinions that I dug through to come to this consensus-yes, even marshmallows and chocolate are dowsed in controversy. Loretta Scott Crew, portable campfire chef extraordinaire, or a figment of our imagination? Dig in deeper and you risk falling down a dark and mysterious rabbit hole of marshmallows, girl scouts, and summer camp controversy. Loretta is often credited with authoring the first published s’more recipe in the 1927 edition of Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts, a Girl Scouts of America guidebook. With the next best innovation in s’more history upon us (keep reading, I’ll get to that part after this brief history lesson), we decided to take a look back at the early days of America’s favorite campfire delicacy.Ī cursory search of the great and powerful Google will lead you to believe that the s’more (or, at that time, “some more”) was invented by an ingenious girl scout troop leader, Loretta Scott Crew. But did you know that even this classic-and you might assume uncontroversial- American delicacy actually has a widely disputed past shrouded in mystery?įact-Checking the History of America’s Favorite Campfire Treat As in, you'll want some more of that delicious sweet treat. Rich, melted chocolate is oozing out the sides of the world’s most nostalgic campfire meal. Right now you’re daydreaming images of gathering around the campfire and squishing that finely toasted, golden-brown marshmallow between two perfect graham cracker halves. Toasty, gooey, chocolatey goodness with that just-sweet-enough graham cracker crunch. These two celebrichefs are teaming up with your favorite campfire in a can to bring chef-driven s’mores to the glampfire.
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