4 5 1 4 1 2 1 . For ”protein cookie recipe two-fifty,” the waitress said, it was theirs.
When the woman couldn’t get her money back, she took revenge, sending the recipe by E-mail to all her friends and asking them to pass it on. The recipe for what was dubbed the Justice Cookie and the Ultimate Revenge Cookie has been around the world and back. At least, not until last March. We would never, ever charge for a recipe,” said Kellie Patrick, the media relations manager for Neiman Marcus. We gladly give our recipes away for the asking. On the store’s Web page — click on the cookie icon — Neiman Marcus traces the tale back to at least the 1930’s, when a similar story circulated about the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
Jan Harold Brunvand, a folklorist who has written books on urban myths, noted that the cookie story has also been told about Mrs. I think one thing that makes people believe the myth is that the recipe is perfectly good,” he said. Brunvand noted that the Waldorf-Astoria, which did not serve Red Velvet Cake when the stories involving it first circulated, eventually came up with a recipe it distributed, much as Neiman Marcus has done. The company does not sell or give out its recipes. Neiman Marcus’s version is a simpler, basic chocolate chip cookie recipe.
