I went to Highlands Junior High school in New York. My seventh grade Home Ec teacher (and eighth grade typing teacher) was Miss Zoober. Probably her name was spelled Zuber, but that’s not as fun.

I appreciate her training. I learned how to sift and measure flour, to properly set a table, and some odd (to me) suburban recipes. My mom, even though she was of the perfect age, did not know any of those fabulous Americana foodstuffs that I love, ironically and non-. Casseroles with potato chip toppings, freaky Jell-O desserts — you get the picture. Miss Zoober knew lots of them.

Here’s one. It just popped into my (hormone-ridden) mind and I might have to make it, just for old time’s sake.

Miss Zoober’s Gooey Cinnamon Morsels

Ingredients:

• A tube of that croissant roll dough that you break against the edge of the counter to pop open.
• A bag of marshmallows.
• Butter.
• Sugar.
• Cinnamon.

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to hot.
2. Melt butter.
3. Mix together cinnamon and sugar.
4. Dip the marshmallow in butter then roll it in the cinnamon/sugar mixture.
5. Peel off a flat triangle of the croissant dough.
6. Starting at the large triangle end, wrap the marshmallow in the dough.
7. Make a bunch of these and stick them in a lightly-greased pan.
8. Maybe brush the tops with some leftover butter.
9. Put it all in the oven. Bake it.
10. Let cool a little. Bite, marvel at the fact the marshmallow has magically disappeared! Say a happy thanks for good old mid-century American cookin’!