A Chocolate Chunk Cookie From An Iconic Store That Closed
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Learn how to make chocolate chip cookies with toasted walnuts, generous chunks of semisweet chocolate, crisp edges and soft, chewy centers. Renee recreates Hudson’s La Cookie, the chocolate chunk walnut cookie that one viewer had been trying to find for years.
FREE RECIPE CARD DOWNLOAD: 👉https://www.kitchenintheshire.com/public-recipe-library/the-j.l.-hudson-walnut-chocolate-chunk-cookie
These homemade cookies use chocolate chopped from a bar, giving you irregular pieces of chocolate throughout the dough. Toasted walnuts add flavor and crunch, while the finished cookies have the combination of crisp edges and a softer middle that Jeffrey remembered from childhood.
Renee shows you how to prepare the walnuts and chocolate, mix and chill the cookie dough, portion the cookies, and judge the bake so the edges are set while the centers remain soft. Follow the complete recipe from preparing the ingredients to pulling a batch from your own oven.
The recipe began with a request from Jeffrey, who remembered eating La Cookie at Hudson’s department stores around Detroit. More than forty years later, he still wanted another taste.
Could we recreate the cookie he remembered?
With help from Hudson’s historian Bruce Allen Kopytek, we examined surviving advertisements, a handwritten recipe and an old ingredient label. Those clues helped Renee develop our reconstruction of Hudson’s La Cookie. If you are a Hudson’s Fan be sure to check out the WDIV documentary. It is outstanding.
The search also brought us back to the people and family traditions that made a trip to Hudson’s worth remembering.
Did you ever eat La Cookie? Do you remember the chocolate, the walnuts or that combination of soft and crisp? Tell us what you remember in the comments.
Real Life Human Narrator: Damon Webb
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:54 - How to prepare the mix-ins
03:01 - How to make the cookie dough
07:28 - The researcher delivers
08:04 - How to fold in the mix-ins
10:37 - Chill baby Chill
11:34 - How to prepare the Chocolate Chunks
12:32 - How to portion out the cookies
14:02 - Baking the cookies
15:07 - Out of the oven.
16:18 - Close ups, taste test and reaction.
17:57 - this might make you choke up.
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Kitchen in the Shire investigates lost recipes, forgotten restaurant recipes, historic cookbooks and food memories. Renee brings these recipes back into the home kitchen while we investigate the people, places and stories behind the food.
BIG THANK YOU TO OUR SOURCES & MEDIA FRIENDS:
Bruce Allen Kopytek
Author of HUDSON’S: Detroit’s World-Famous Department Store. Thank you for sharing your research, recollections and the materials that helped us reconstruct La Cookie.
👉 https://www.editionsbk.com/
WDIV Local 4 Detroit
Backstory: Hudson’s
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuJ_OjlMa3Y
WXYZ-TV Detroit
Archival Hudson’s news coverage
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YLF6xWhhUo
Detroit Historical Society
👉 https://www.detroithistorical.org/
All photographs, film clips and archival materials remain the property of their respective creators and rights holders. Credit is given where due and clips are used under fair use.
#ChocolateChipCookies #WalnutCookies #Hudsons
FREE RECIPE CARD DOWNLOAD: 👉https://www.kitchenintheshire.com/public-recipe-library/the-j.l.-hudson-walnut-chocolate-chunk-cookie
These homemade cookies use chocolate chopped from a bar, giving you irregular pieces of chocolate throughout the dough. Toasted walnuts add flavor and crunch, while the finished cookies have the combination of crisp edges and a softer middle that Jeffrey remembered from childhood.
Renee shows you how to prepare the walnuts and chocolate, mix and chill the cookie dough, portion the cookies, and judge the bake so the edges are set while the centers remain soft. Follow the complete recipe from preparing the ingredients to pulling a batch from your own oven.
The recipe began with a request from Jeffrey, who remembered eating La Cookie at Hudson’s department stores around Detroit. More than forty years later, he still wanted another taste.
Could we recreate the cookie he remembered?
With help from Hudson’s historian Bruce Allen Kopytek, we examined surviving advertisements, a handwritten recipe and an old ingredient label. Those clues helped Renee develop our reconstruction of Hudson’s La Cookie. If you are a Hudson’s Fan be sure to check out the WDIV documentary. It is outstanding.
The search also brought us back to the people and family traditions that made a trip to Hudson’s worth remembering.
Did you ever eat La Cookie? Do you remember the chocolate, the walnuts or that combination of soft and crisp? Tell us what you remember in the comments.
Real Life Human Narrator: Damon Webb
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:54 - How to prepare the mix-ins
03:01 - How to make the cookie dough
07:28 - The researcher delivers
08:04 - How to fold in the mix-ins
10:37 - Chill baby Chill
11:34 - How to prepare the Chocolate Chunks
12:32 - How to portion out the cookies
14:02 - Baking the cookies
15:07 - Out of the oven.
16:18 - Close ups, taste test and reaction.
17:57 - this might make you choke up.
PRODUCTS AND INGREDIENTS USED IN THIS VIDEO:
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Explore the entire Kitchen Collection on Amazon:
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Get perks and support the channel by becoming a CHANNEL MEMBER:
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VISIT THE WEBSITE FOR MORE RECIPES, MERCH AND MORE:
👉 https://www.kitchenintheshire.com
ABOUT KITCHEN IN THE SHIRE:
Kitchen in the Shire investigates lost recipes, forgotten restaurant recipes, historic cookbooks and food memories. Renee brings these recipes back into the home kitchen while we investigate the people, places and stories behind the food.
BIG THANK YOU TO OUR SOURCES & MEDIA FRIENDS:
Bruce Allen Kopytek
Author of HUDSON’S: Detroit’s World-Famous Department Store. Thank you for sharing your research, recollections and the materials that helped us reconstruct La Cookie.
👉 https://www.editionsbk.com/
WDIV Local 4 Detroit
Backstory: Hudson’s
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuJ_OjlMa3Y
WXYZ-TV Detroit
Archival Hudson’s news coverage
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YLF6xWhhUo
Detroit Historical Society
👉 https://www.detroithistorical.org/
All photographs, film clips and archival materials remain the property of their respective creators and rights holders. Credit is given where due and clips are used under fair use.
#ChocolateChipCookies #WalnutCookies #Hudsons
