AIR CONDITIONING REFRIGERATION TECHNOLOGY

~Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

233/366 - Project 366 2008 - August 20, 2008 ~

STRAWBERRY OREO COOKIE WHIP

4 cups fresh shrawberries, divided
1 - 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk (NOT evaporated)
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 - 8 ounce Cool Whip (thawed), divided
8 Oreo cookies
1 tablespoon butter (melted)

Line a bread loaf pan with foil.
In a large bowl mash 2 cups of the strawberries with a potato masher.
Add the condensed milk to the strawberries and stir.
Add lemon juice and stir.
Add 2 cups of the Cool Whip and stir.
Pour the strawberry mixture into the foil lined bread loaf pan.
Crush the Oreo cookies finely into a small bowl, add the melted butter and stir.
Spread the cookie mixture evenly over the top of the strawberry mixture.
Use the back of a spoon to lightly press the Oreo cookie mixture into the strawberry mixture.
Cover the top of the loaf pan with foil.
Freeze overnight.
The next day remove it from the freezer, remove the foil from the top, and invert it onto a plate.
Frost the loaf with the other 2 cups of Cool Whip.
Slice the remaining 2 cups of strawberries and arrange them on top of the Cool Whip frosting.
Slice like bread to serve.

ENJOY!!!

Oreo
Wikipedia

Founded 1912

Oreo is a trademark for a popular sandwich cookie currently manufactured by the Nabisco Division of Kraft Foods. The current design consists of a sweet, white filling commonly referred to as 'cream' or 'creme', sandwiched between two circular chocolate cookies.

Over 491 billion Oreo cookies have been sold since they were first introduced, making them the best selling cookie of the 20th century. Its most recent packaging slogan is "Milk's Favorite Cookie", which is a slight change from "America's Favorite Cookie" (though some packages in the U.S. contain the original slogan).

The Oreo cookie was developed and produced by Nabisco, an American, New Jersey based company, in February 1912 at its Chelsea factory in New York City (now Chelsea Market). It was created mainly to target the British market, whose biscuits were seen by Nabisco to be too 'ordinary'. Originally, Oreo was mound-shaped and available in two flavors; lemon meringue and cream. In America, they were sold for 30 cents a pound in novel tin cans with glass tops, which allowed customers to see the cookies.

A newer design for the cookie was introduced in 1916, and as the cream filling was by far the more popular of the two available flavors, Nabisco discontinued production of the lemon meringue filling during the 1920s. The modern-day Oreo was developed in 1952 by William A Turnier, to include the Nabisco logo.

There are many theories pointing to the origin of the name 'Oreo', including derivations from the French word 'Or', meaning gold (as early packaging was gold), or the Greek word 'Oros', meaning mountain or hill (as the original Oreo was mound shaped) or even the Greek word 'Oreos', meaning beautiful/nice. Other theories are that the 're' from cream was 'sandwiched' between the two Os from chocolate, or the word 'just seemed like a nice, melodic combination of sounds'.

Oreo is very similar to the Hydrox cookie manufactured by Sunshine, which was introduced in 1908, leading to speculation that Oreo obtained the idea from Sunshine. Having lost market share to Oreo for years, Hydrox cookies were withdrawn in 1999, but will be re-introduced by Kellogg's in August 2008 .

The product is distributed under the Kraft parent label and has no mention of the US sub-division Nabisco that is used in all countries where it is available for retail. Kraft is experimenting with the use of Nabisco products in the highly-developed UK snack market but if Oreo is a success, they may consider launching other products such as Chips Ahoy!

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