BELOVED "AUNT CHICK'S" FAMOUS COOKIE CUTTERS ARE BEING RERELEASED AFTER FOUR DECADEDS FOR CHRISTMAS 2004!
www.grammascutters.com - This holiday season Gramma's Cutters is selling cookie cutters from the original Aunt Chick's molds. This is a unique opportunity in the baking world for thise who have loved these holiday cutters for generations.
Tulsa 's best known cook and columnist, Nettie McBirney, a.k.a. "Aunt Chick", became an international figure for her culinary inventions in the 1930's and 40's. In 1948 her cutting edge invention of plastic embossed molds with special pebbled interiors, to keep the dough from sticking, revolutionized cookie cutters and created a world wide tradition. Fans of Aunt Chick's cookie cutters included Princess Margaret, who purchased a set of the Christmas cutters for Prince Charles' fourth Christmas in 1952. In addition Wrigley's Gum purchased cutters as a premium and then sold 70,000 of them in six weeks.
Carrie Greno, founder and president of Gramma's Cutters, was first introduced to these cutters through her grandmother, Bunny Pittenger, who purchased the Merry Xmas Set in 1949. Bunny said she had her children making cookies before they could walk.
"I had (my children) at the table doing cookies when they were in high chairs", Bunny once said. Like so many other families throughout the country Bunny's eight children purchased cutters for their homes when they started their own families.
But by the time the cutters creator "Aunt Chick" died in 1982, they were hard to find. Bakers began hoarding them for fear that they would never be available again.
Over the past ten years Greno's family has located and acquired all of the original Aunt Chick's molds, trademark and copyrights. In that time the company has offered some vintage and reproduction cutters. But now, for the first time in over four decades, all of the Aunt Chick's cookie cutters will be available again.
She has set up a website, www.grammascutters.com , and dedicated it to all things Aunt Chick. "The more I learn about Aunt Chick, the more I really like her and her customers loved her too," Greno says.
The original five sets of Aunt Chick's cookie cutters will be available for Christmas 2004, including the Merry Xmas set with the Jolly Santa cutter. Prices range from $8 to $30 a set. Aunt Chick's cutters along with her food columns, recipes and personal history are available at www.grammascutters.com.
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