A nightly fireside tr adition | Written by: barry kaufman
| Photography by: michael hrizuk
There’s an appropriate sweetness to the humble origins
considered a time-tested staple of campouts. It’s one of
of the s’more. While Frank Epperson and Ruth Graves
those creations that sprung up organically, its recipe
Wakefield have been deified for birthing the Popsicle and
passed from campfi re to campfi re as people came together
the chocolate chip cookie, respectively, the name of the
in the shared bonds of nature.
culinary genius who fi rst sandwiched marshmallow and chocolate together between graham crackers has been
Like its humble origins, the s’more exults in a sort of
lost to history like smoke drifting from a campfi re.
celebration of simplicity. Try new fl avors, introduce gourmet ingredients, do what you want with it.
The closest we have is a recipe by Loretta Scott Crew in a 1927 guide for Girl Scouts called Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts. But even then, it was already
But you can’t beat the classics.
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