FEATURE/Pepperidge Farm 'Holiday Farmhouse' Will Delight Millions as Part of Rockefeller Center Display; Easy Recipe Shows Home Cooks How to Make Their Own.Feature Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--Dec. 17, 2001 Some 15 different varieties of delectable Pepperidge Farm Pepperidge Farm was founded in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin, who named the brand for a property her family owned in Connecticut (which itself was named for the pepperidge tree, Nyssa sylvatica). In 1961, the company was purchased by Campbell's. cookies and crackers are the stars of an extraordinary Pepperidge Farm Holiday Farmhouse on display on the Concourse Level of 30 Rockefeller Plaza now through January 4. The whimsical whim·si·cal adj. 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary. 2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality. , revolving creation depicts the rustic farmhouse that appears in the logo of Pepperidge Farm, Inc., leading provider of premium quality baked products. "Pepperidge Farm" was the family home of the company's esteemed founder, Margaret Rudkin Margaret Rudkin (née Fogarty) (September 14, 1897 - June 1, 1967) of Fairfield, Connecticut was the founder of Pepperidge Farm. Born in New York City, she was the eldest of five children of Joseph and Margaret "Healey" Fogarty. . Delightful in its details - from a Milano cookie-laddered millwheel, to "birch" logs made from tubular French Vanilla vanilla, a plant of the genus Vanilla of the family Orchidaceae (orchid family). Vines of hot, damp climates, most are indigenous to Central and South America, especially Mexico, but are now cultivated in other tropical regions. Pirouettes, to a Spritzer cookie cookie File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target Web advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to snowman, to a millpond mill·pond n. A pond formed by a milldam. millpond Noun a pool which provides water to turn a millwheel Noun 1. jumping with Baby Goldfish crackers - the Pepperidge Farm Holiday Farmhouse is sure to enchant the millions of visitors to Rockefeller Center Rockefeller Center, complex of buildings in central Manhattan, New York City, between 48th and 51st streets and Fifth Ave. and the Ave. of the Americas (Sixth Ave.). The project was sponsored by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. this holiday season. (Some 500,000 people a day walk through the Rockefeller Center complex while the famous tree is lit.) Pepperidge pepperidge: see black gum. Farm's creation is one of five structures being featured in a festive holiday house display sponsored by Good Housekeeping Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. magazine. "'The Farmhouse' has always been a favorite icon of the Pepperidge Farm company," says Ted Kantor, Business Director, Cookies. "It not only symbolizes our heritage but also the kind of wholesome whole·some adj. whole·som·er, whole·som·est 1. Conducive to sound health or well-being; salutary: simple, wholesome food; a wholesome climate. 2. quality that Pepperidge Farm baked goods are famous for. It was especially fun using our own products to make The Farmhouse come to life." The Pepperidge Farm Holiday Farmhouse on display was constructed by professional artists. But interested home cooks can make Farmhouses of their own. Instructions - and a model photo -- are found on packages of Pepperidge Farm Ginger Family cookies, distributed only during the holiday months. The easy recipe is attached. So build your own holiday tradition with scrumptious cookies and crackers from Pepperidge Farm. And don't forget to provide some extra supplies for your "construction crew!" About Pepperidge Farm Pepperidge Farm, Inc., based in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a leading provider of premium quality fresh bakery products, cookies and crackers, and frozen foods. Among the company's most popular products are Milano and Nantucket cookies, Goldfish brand crackers, and more than 50 varieties of fresh baked breads. About Rockefeller Center Built between 1931 and 1939, Rockefeller Center was the first real estate project to include offices, retail, entertainment and restaurants in one integrated development. The landmarked portion consists of 12 buildings aggregating 7 million square feet, including 700,000 square feet in retail stores and amenities. During the holiday season, an estimated 500,000 people walk through the Rockefeller Center complex each day.
PEPPERIDGE FARM HOLIDAY FARMHOUSE RECIPE
Ingredients:
Cookies Goldfish Crackers
Shortbread Goldfish Graham Snacks
Verona Goldfish Snack Crackers
Geneva
Chessmen
Milano
Ginger Family
Filled Pirouettes
Brussels
Hazelnut
Chantilly
Bordeaux
Directions:
1) Cut Pepperidge Farm cookie boxes or cardboard to make base,
walls and roof.
2) Prepare icing (recipe below).
3) "Glue" together walls at corners with icing. Attach to base.
Top with roof. Allow icing to dry thoroughly.
4) "Glue" Pepperidge Farm cookies to house. Finish corners,
eaves, windows and doors by piping icing through a plain or
star tip.
5) For trees, spread icing on Styrofoam or ice cream cones. Cover
with Pepperidge Farm Goldfish.
6) Spread icing on base for snow. Add cookie path, woodpile,
icicles and ginger people as desired.
Icing: Mix 3 egg whites, 1/2tsp. cream of tartar and 1 box (16oz.)
confectioners sugar with mixer at low speed. Beat at high speed 5 min.
or until stiff peaks form. (Keep covered to prevent drying out.)
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