S'mores (1953)

[Carol Snow]

I was a girl scout a bit later (in the 50s and early 60s but it
doesn't sound very "scout-like" to me to be using a broiler.  my
recollection of s'mores is that one put the marshmallows on a stick
and toasted them over the campfire until they were almost liquid
inside.  Then you'd slap them between two graham crackers melting the
chocolate squares inside and creating a sandwich.  I guess it could
be done open faced, but what a mess to eat!
C. Snow



>  >   This beats the 1958 cites in the archives.  Hershey's has recently
>>advertised (on tv) its chocolate bar in "s'mores."
>>    From THIS WEEK magazine, "PICNIC MEANS FAMILY FUN," NEW YORK HERALD
>>TRIBUNE, 28 June 1953, pg. 37, col. 3:
>>
>>    _"S'mores"_
>>
>>    Place a chocolate-covered thin mint or four squares of milk chocolate
>>on a graham cracker.  Place toasted marshmallow on top of candy and cover
>>with another cracker to form a sandwich.
>
>The term "s'mores" was applied to  graham crackers, topped with milk
>chocolate and marshmallows & stuck under the broiler long enough to toast
>(or at least melt) the marshmallow at least a decade before 1953.  It
>didn't have to be covered with another cracker, and I never heard of the
>thin mint variation.  I remember this from the year I was a girl scout,
>1941-2.  Can't cite a text for this, but the term was certainly in use.
>A. Murie