Marion Pellicano Ambrose
They’re outside the supermarket, church and Walmart! They might even come right up to your door! Yes, they're everywhere!Who? Girl Scouts, of course. It’s cookie selling time! Girls Scout Troops have been selling cookies as their major fund raiser for many years.
The first cookie sales by an individual Scout unit was by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma in December 1917. In 1922, the Girl Scout magazine The American Girl suggested cookie sales as a fund-raiser and provided recipes. In 1933, Girl Scouts in Philadelphia organized the first official sale, selling homemade cookies at the windows of local utility companies. The first Girl Scout cookie recipe was a sugar cookie. In 1936 the national organization began licensing commercial bakers to produce cookies.
