Symbols for Pennsylvania: Food Symbols By Nora Kirkeby May 27, 2009, 14:08 PST

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Pennsylvania State Beverage (Recipes)
Here are some scrumptous recipes that you can make for your family and friends. You can also use them for class projects! (Beware: you will need Adobe Acrobat to open these recipes.)
Source: Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board

Pennsylvania State Beverage (Cut and Build)
These are great cut and folk model projects. You can make your 3D cow or a dairy farm complete with livestock.
Source: Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board

Pennsylvania State Beverage (Bottles)
Kenneth Keith collects old-fashioned milk bottles from all over the country. Find out which ones are from your state.
Source: Kenneth Keith

Pennsylvania State Beverage (Health)
Find out why milk is important to your daily diet here. It can improve your hair, skin, and sleeping habits. Check it out!
Source: Got Milk

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Pennsylvania State Cookie
State House Bill 5919 designated the Chocolate Chip Cookie as the official state cookie of Pennsylvania. It was submitted by the 4th grade students from Defer Elementary School in Grosse Pointe Park.

Although the bill does not designate an official state recipe, the students submitted the following recipe:

Pennsylvania Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
(makes about three dozen cookies)

• 1 ¾ cups of all purpose flour
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon Diamond Crystal brand kosher salt
• 1 cup softened butter or margarine
• 1 cup Pioneer brand granulated sugar
• ½ cup packed Pioneer brand brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chunks
• 1 ½ cups Graceland Fruit brand dried cherries
• Additional granulated sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit
   
   
2. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl; set aside. Beat butter, 1 cup granulated sugar, and brown sugar in a large bowl at medium speed of electric mixer until light and fluffy (about two minutes). Beat in egg and vanilla until well blended. On low speed of mixer, gradually beat in 1/3 of flour mixture at a time, until all is used. Scrape sides of bowl between additions of flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chunks and cherries. Refrigerate covered dough for at least one hour.
   
   
3. Roll chilled dough into golf-ball-sized balls. Roll the balls in the additional granulated sugar. Space three inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Gently press with bottom of glass to flatten. Return remaining dough to the refrigerator until ready to use.
   
   
4. Bake 13 to 15 minutes or until cookies are set. Cool cookies about five minutes on cookie sheets; transfer to wire racks. Cool completely.

Variations:

• Substitute 1 ½ cups of Graceland Fruit brand dried blueberries instead of dried cherries.
• Add ½ cup chopped Michigan walnuts.

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