“Oh that’s easy!” said Pamela Hill, who co-owns the bakery with her husband, Maurice. “Memphis City Schools used to bake these cookies from scratch every day. In fact, back when we were kids, we had real cooks preparing our lunches, and everything was cooked in the cafeteria. "Everyone loved the butter cookie.
Why do you think Memphians love Makeda’s Homemade Butter Cookies so much? “Oh that’s easy!” said Pamela Hill, who co-owns the bakery with her husband, Maurice. “Memphis City Schools used to bake these cookies from scratch every day. In fact, back when we were kids, we had real cooks preparing our lunches, and everything was cooked in the cafeteria.
This is supposedly the recipe for the awesome peanut butter cookies that the East Penn School District cafeterias made from scratch each day when I was in school. With the revamping of the lunch program to promote healthy foods, they discontinued making these cookies sometime in the early 90s.
OK, maybe not everyone, but the vast majority of students loved the smell of the butter cookies down the hall, and of course they loved eating them as well. I know I did.” A native Memphian, Hill grew up in the Foote Homes public housing project with her mother, Geraldine Heard, and her six siblings.