From the Vault

120 Years Old

RUMSEY CELEBRATES WITH OUR FAMOUS COOKIES

To honor our 120-year birthday milestone this year, our chefs whipped up some of our famous Original Rumsey Hall School Cookies for students. We hold our traditions close to our heart here, and a very special tradition is our Head of School cookie line—that momentous time of day when students take a break from class activities to greet the Head of School and walk away with a morsel of yumminess to sweeten their day.

Are you curious to know/remember just how delicious Rumsey cookies are? To commemorate this token year, we're releasing our famous cookie recipe so you can bake up a batch at home. Go ahead, apply that 'Rumsey Effort' in your kitchens and get baking!

Retired Headmaster Tom Farmen waits in the rain to hand out cookies to Rumsey students in 2011.

Original

Cookies COOKIE INGREDIENTS 1 cup butter 2 cups light brown sugar 2 eggs 1/4 cup milk 3 1/2 cups flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. vanilla COOKIE INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend ingredients. Make walnut-sized balls with the dough and flatten with a glass dipped in cold water. Bake for ten minutes. FROSTING INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar 3 Tbspn. butter melted in 3 Tbspn. hot milk and 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. cinnamon pinch of salt

FROSTING INSTRUCTIONS

Beat for two minutes and then let stand for three minutes. Beat for two minutes again and then spread onto cooled cookies.

RUMSEY HALL

Baker Beware! One bite of these cinnamon-drizzled puffs of magic and you'll be transported back to Blue Dog territory—back to the scent of autumn wafting through Upper School street; the bonfire warmth of a dorm gathering; the exuberance of ringing the Rumsey victory bell after a grueling soccer match. Back to campus... back to the golden days.

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