Any Cookie Curators to discuss extinct Stella D'oros of yore?

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A few minutes ago, a long dead memory surfaced... delicious cookies my Mom used to buy in the 1970s, mostly around Christmas.

Being a teenager, all I wanted was something to stuff in my maw, but these were a cut above the gooey American stuff - they were a set of Italian cookies made by Stella D'oro. (A photo attached below)

I have a few questions for those who might remember: First, what was the assortment called back then? (to pursue internet research). I am finding modern references to Lady D'oro, and Continental Collection, but the problem is the original Italian owners sold out to corporate interests decades ago, and I'm sure the name and formulas have been tinkered with...

The second question is, does anybody know if there is an Italian name for this style of cookie? Is it traditional?

Finally, does anybody remember the taste more clearly than I do? The blond cookies I think were vanilla, and the dark cookies a mild chocolate. The pink frosting seems to have been a tutti-fruti, but that's reaching on a very old memory.

Thanks...

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I can still buy the Stella D‘oro assortement cookies at Target. They also sell the Anisette cookies by Stella D‘oro. And your recollection of the flavors is correct. These are some of my husbands favorite store bought cookies. I’m not aware of any specific name for this style of cookies.

Eddie[this post was last edited: 11/9/2018-22:34]
 
Aaah. Swiss Fudge Cookies! Anise Bread Sticks, and yes, the Italian Assortment----loved the vanilla/strawberry swirls!

Like everything else really good, eventually it's gone!

Whatever happened to Sunshine Biscuit Co.? Vanilla Wafers made with butter, and golden raisin squares. Hydrox Chocolate cookies.

Or, Caravelle candy bars?
 
BTW

The cookies were all made with vegetable shortening not butterfat (and the company used that as an advertising tool in the days when people thought butter was poison) so the cookies lacked the depth of a butter cookie.
They were not too sweet, nor, were the flavors used, too strong. Without a doubt, the Swiss Fudge cookies were their best seller by far.

They were just right for a quick snack, with a hot beverage.
 
“Whatever happened to Sunshine Biscuit Co.? Vanilla Wafers made with butter, and golden raisin squares. Hydrox Chocolate cookies. “

When I was 3 years old I met my very first friend my age that lived 3 doors down from us. His father was a traveling salesman for Sunshine Biscuit Co. We always had Sunshine Cookies in the house.

I so miss Hydrox cookies! They were so much better than Oreos, which I really don’t care for much at all. My friend Paul had a Sunshine Animal Cracker tin with handles that he used for his lunchpail. I thought it was so cunning, and wanted one for myself.

Thanks for the memory Steve!

Eddie
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Loved and still do love Breakfast Treats

Growing up Stella D'oro breakfast treats were nearly always in our house or any of the neighbors. Later on one joined that club.

Living in a largely Italian area those breakfast treat cookies were something many had with coffee, and one caught the bug.

When started working in hospitals would bring along a few packages sometimes for the nurses break room/station, and they were always gone within < one hour.

 
Sunshine Biscuits was an independent American baker of cookies, crackers, and cereals.The company, whose brand still appears today on a few products (e.g., Cheez-Its), was purchased by Keebler Company in 1996 which was subsequently purchased by Kellogg Company in 2000. I think Mothers cookies is now thrown in the pile somewhere. Actually, I don't think any of the above companies make cookies today that taste like they did when I was a kid. I remember the Stella D'oro cookies. I am going to check out our Target to see if they have them in stock. My wife and I were in WinCo shopping a few weeks ago and we noticed all of the different flavors of Oreos. It is not like we had nothing to do but we counted 27 flavors. Then over to Chips Ahoy and they had 18 flavors. Now I know why we don't buy many store brand cookies. We like to make our own. The one cookie I miss is Mystic Mint.
 
The big fish swallow up the little ones and you never see those products again.

Keebler did make Coconut Chocolate Drop cookies which I thought were great for store bought, and have since discontinued them, of course. At least they still make the Danish Wedding cookies for FIVE dollars a box!.

The Sunshine family were from NJ. There was a branch of the family in Atlanta, back in the day, and they were very religious. All of the Sunshine brand cookies and crackers were Kosher (and so were Stella's). I thought their vanilla wafers always made a superior banana pudding. In the old days, few, of Nabisco's or Keebler's products were Kosher.

Eddie, I ran across some cookies with the Hydrox packaging while at the neighborhood Big Lot's discount store. They were clearly a knock-off of the original and not too tasty. I agree that the original were preferable to Oreo's.

Laundress, I couldn't recall the name of the chocolate and vanilla finger-cookies. You answered that question!
 
Steve,

what I liked about the Hydrox cookies better than Oreos was the filling. The Oreos filling has too much vegetable shortening and they almost taste greasy. Hydrox is more a sugary filling, and not as thick as Oreo filling, so you can actually taste the chocolate cookies that it fills. A while back I seem to recall seeing Hydrox being sold on the Vermont Country Store website. But I just took a look again and they don’t have them anymore.

Dan mentioned Mothers cookies, which are now being sold again, but again, they aren’t as good as they used to be. The original Mothers Cookies were bigger, just a bit more flavorful, but the new Mothers are still pretty good for store boughts. My Mom used to pack 2 Mothers cookies in each of our lunch bags/pails, either Oatmeal or Coconut.

Pepperridge Farms cookies are some of the best store boughts now available IMHO. But no cookie is ever better than homemade.

Eddie
 
Burry's!

Miss them so much. Loved Fudgetown and Gaucho. Mmmmmm

Stella d'oro. They are being made again. The breakfast treats taste somewhat the same. I think the Lady Stella Assortment has been changed in size and taste somewhat IMHO.
 
Hydrox cookies are back, and with the original all sugar formula (no high fructose corn syrup). Brought back from the dead by Leaf Brands. Leaf is now suing Modelez (who makes Oreos). Seems that many of the large brands pay for shelf space. And Modelez has their own people come into stores to stock their products. Modelez was moving Hydrox cookies to keep people from seeing and buying them. Hope Leaf Brands wins the lawsuit. Hydrox taste as good as I remember them.

 
Nabisco Famous Cookies

I still buy Stell Doro Cookies and they pretty much taste the same. I used to buy Nabisco Famous Cookie assortment and it is no longer available, probably for 15 years. I loved those cookies. Some of the cookies in the assortment are still available such as Lorna Doones and sugar wafers. Other varieties were only in that assortment.

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Nabisco Famous Cookie assortment!

Now that take's me back!

Loved, loved, *LOVED* those cookies.

Lorna Doones were cookies we gave to small kids in our family and others growing up.

There was also another cookie, round with a hole in center (yes, that describes many, *LOL*) that was also big small kids, they could use that center hole to "grasp" the thing.
 

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